Guy Dubois, owner of La Maison Anglaise et Internationale and co-organizer of the QuebeCrime Festival.

Co-conspirators Guy Dubois, owner of La Maison Anglaise et Internationale, and Jacques Filippi, owner of The House of Crime and Mystery website, are busy preparing the second QuebeCrime Festival slated for October 25 to 27. New this year is the bilingual touch to the QuebeCrime Festival which will welcome 19 anglophone and 4 francophone writers. Twenty are Canadian collaborators, six American, one British, one Australian, one Swedish, one Irish and one Irish/Canadian writer.

Win tickets! Visit La Maison Anglaise and quote the QCT !

Guy Dubois is offering one pair of tickets, a $40 value, to each of the eight events happening during the QuebeCrime Festival. The first eight people who walk into La Maison Anglaise bookstore in Place de la Cité and say they read about this offer in the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph will win a pair of tickets to one of the events. Six events will be in English, two in French.

Jacques Filippi is the owner of the House of Crime and Mystery Website and co-organizer of the QuebeCrime Festival.

Be part of the crime scene at the Morrin Centre during the second QuebeCrime Festival this October 25 to 27. 

Here's what to expect at the 2012 QuebeCrime Festival
The Festival starts on Thursday, October 25. Swedish writer Mons Kallentoft will be a guest speaker at Cégep Garneau at noon then, that evening, the Festival will officially be launched at the cocktail starting at 5 pm at the Morrin Centre. Tickets must be purchased for the cocktail and they include a hardback book. Afterwards, Linwood Barclay, Mark Billingham, Giles Blunt, Laura Lippman, Archer Mayor and Michael Robotham will do a reading with book signing.

Starting at 6 pm on Friday, October 26, there will be a panel discussing "The Drama of Everyday Life: Small Lives, Bigger Fears?" with Linwood Barclay, Mark Billingham, Giles Blunt, Archer Mayor and John McFetridge. This will be followed from 8:30 to 10:30 pm by an English book reading and book signing with John Connolly, Brian Freeman, Chris F. Holm, Peter Kirby, Robert Pobi and David Swinson.

Saturday, October 27 begins at 10:30 with an Anglophone panel and book signing: "Books to die for: What do writers read?" Chelsea Cain, John Connolly, Brian Freeman, Chris F. Holm, Mons Kallentoft, and Owen Laukkanen will share their wisdom.

There will be a 1:00 Francophone panel and book signing to explore the topic of "Le polar Québécois: un monde à part" with Patrick de Friberg, Martin Michaud, Patrick Senécal and Johanne Seymour. An Anglophone panel about "Living the Double Life: to Work and to Write" and a book signing will follow at 3:30 featuring Wayne Arthurson, Peggy Blair, Peter Kirby, Robert Pobi, Brad Smith and David Swinson. At 6:30, a Francophone reading and book signing will gather Martin Michaud, Johanne Seymour, Patrick Senécal, and Patrick de Friberg. The final event of the day will begin at 9:30 with an Anglophone reading and book signing by Wayne Arthurson, Peggy Blair, Chelsea Cain, Mons Kallentoft, Owen Laukkanen and John McFetridge.

Meanwhile, there will be new CSI events which are being kept as a mystery event but will soon be revealed. Stay tuned to the www.quebecrime.com website or follow on Twitter for updates. Unless otherwise stated, events will be hosted at the Morrin Centre at 44 Chausseé des Écossais. Remember to visit the authentic, newly-restored jail cells while you are there!

Tickets are now available. A single event ticket for the general public is $20, for members of the Literary and Historical Society and for students, it is $15. It is possible to purchase passes for three events or all access packages. The latter can include the cocktail as well as hotel bookings. For complete details and updates, please consult the website at www.quebecrime.com . If you would like to volunteer for the event, please contact Guy Dubois at 418- 654-9523.