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Brenda Chapman

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Born

Toronto, Canada

Website

http://www.brendachapman.ca

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Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult

Influences

Enid Blyton, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemmingway, Michael Con ...more

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January 2008

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I'm an Ottawa author with 18 published novels in the mystery genre, both adult and YA. I am currently writing two adult mystery series: The Stonechild and Rouleau police procedurals from Dundurn include Cold Mourning (2014), which was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for crime novel of the year, Butterfly Kills, Tumbled Graves, Shallow End and Bleeding Darkness. Turning Secrets, 6th in the series, will be released spring 2019.

The Anna Sweet mysteries are novellas from Grass Roots Press for adult literacy or those wanting a quick read. My Sister's Keeper and No Trace were both shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis award and The Hard Fall and No Trace were shortlisted for the Golden Oak award.

Previous published fiction includes: the Jennifer B ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 16,839 ratings · 1,858 reviews · 40 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Mourning (Stonechild and Rouleau, #1) 3.54 avg rating — 7,280 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterfly Kills (Stonechild and Rouleau, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 4,084 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tumbled Graves (Stonechild and Rouleau, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shallow End (Stonechild and Rouleau, #4) 4.10 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bleeding Darkness (Stonechild and Rouleau, #5) 4.25 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turning Secrets (Stonechild and Rouleau, #6) 4.25 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Closing Time (Stonechild and Rouleau, #7) 4.26 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Date (Hunter and Tate #1) 3.93 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Last Seen (Hunter and Tate #2) 4.02 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Wife 3.41 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Settling Into October

Good Saturday morning.

It was a busy week. I got in a bit of writing but am taking my time writing the ending to the manuscript, doing a bit of research, pondering how to pull everything together. All this to say, I still have some work to do before the first draft is finished but I believe it's heading in a good direction.

The new website construction has taken up a lot of time. I've been pulling m Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Brenda Chapman

Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery (7 books)
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Hunter and Tate (2 books)
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3.97 avg rating — 485 ratings

Anna Sweet Mystery (7 books)
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3.58 avg rating — 419 ratings

Jennifer Bannon Mystery (4 books)
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4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings

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“hunt when he was in the police’s sights. She was too. She”
― Brenda Chapman, Bleeding Darkness

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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message 7: by Brenda

Dec 07, 2012 01:47PM

Author Leanne Dyck interviews me today on her blog and asks about how I started writing and my inspiration. You can read the post at:

http://sweatercursed.blogspot.ca/

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message 6: by Brenda

Oct 15, 2012 09:35AM

Some guest blogging - http://typem4murder.blogspot.ca/2012/...

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message 5: by Brenda

Apr 14, 2012 10:32AM

Beth wrote: "Thanks, Brenda, for sending a friend request to this fellow Goodreads mystery author!"

Hi Beth - good to meet you on Goodreads!

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message 4: by Beth

Apr 14, 2012 08:54AM