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Publication Order of Miranda Abbott Mystery Books

with Ian Ferguson
I Only Read Murder(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mystery in the Title(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon

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Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Japan(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hokkaido Highway Blues / Hitching Rides with Buddha(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
I Was a Teenage Katima-Victim: A Canadian Odyssey(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon
Why I Hate Canadians(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bastards & Boneheads: Canada’s Glorious Leaders, Past and Present(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Girlfriend's Guide to Hockey / Clueless About Hockey (With: Teena Spencer,Bruce Spencer)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon
Canadian History for Dummies(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon
How to Be a Canadian (With: Ian Ferguson)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beyond Belfast: A 560 Mile Journey Across Northern Ireland On Sore Feet(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
Coal Dust Kisses: A Christmas Memoir(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Canadian Pie(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Road Trip Rwanda: A Journey Into the New Heart of Africa(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon

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Will Ferguson
Will Ferguson is a novelist and travel writer. He won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for “419”. Will’s been nominated for a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and he has won the Stephen Leacock Medal For Humor a record-tying 3 times.

Will was born 4th out of 6 kids in the former trading post of Fort Vermillion, Alberta. When he was 6, his parents split up during a brief interlude in Regina.

When he was 16 he quit school and moved to Saskatoon, Dauphin, and Red Deer.

Will finished his high school education while attending Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School in Red Deer and received the Alexander Rutherford Scholarships.

Then he joined the Canadian government and funded programs like Canada World Youth and Katimavik.

Canada World Youth sent him to Ecuador in South America, an experience which he detailed in one of his books.

He studied screenwriting and film production at York University in Toronto, graduating with a BFA in 1990. Soon after, he joined the Japan Exchange Teachers Programme and spent five years in Asia. He married Terumi (his wife) in Kumamoto, Japan in 1995.

After returning from Japan he experienced a reverse culture shock, which became the basis for his very first book, which is called “Why I Hate Canadians”.

Will’s debut novel, “Happiness”, was sold into 23 languages around the world. He has written for Canadian Geographic magazine, The New York Times, and Esquire UK.

Will has received an honorary degree in English from Mount Royal University in 2016. He was made a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2024.

His son (Genki Ferguson) is the author of a novel called “Satellite Love”. Ian Ferguson, Will’s older brother, won the Stephen Leacock Medal for “Village of the Small Houses”, a memoir, in 2004.

“Happiness” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2001. Why would there be a contract out on Edwin de Valu’s life? Ediwn, who is the wiry low-level editor at Panderic Press. Why has rage vanished from the streets and McDonald’s gone all alfalfa? How come everybody just seems so happy? And most importantly, who (or what) is Tupak Soiree?

This enormous self-help manuscript lands on his desk, it is headed right for the trash. Edwin’s cynicism of self-help books, coupled with his filthy mood that morning, just results in him dismissing Tupak’s “What I Learned on the Mountain” and using it as a doorstop. But Tupak’s manuscript is unique: it’s a self help book that really works. Before he even knows it, this series of events starts which affects not just his own life but the rest of the world at large.

For those that choke on “Chicken Soup for the Soul” or have got choice words for Dr. Phil, Will offers up this killer dose of Happiness, a masterpiece of comic fiction.

“Spanish Fly” is the second stand alone novel and was released in 2007. 1939. Jack McGreary was raised by his dad in the dying town of Paradise Flats and he has learned to live by his wits. Drought has turned America’s heartland into a dust bowl, and the whole world is on the brink of a war.

Jack’s dad wants him to head up north to Canada so that he can sign up in the fight against Fascism. However when this pair of fast-talking swindlers named Miss Rose and Virgil blow right through town, Jack falls in with them instead. And together they go off on this crime spree across the Southwest, staging this series of inventive, often hilarious cons, as sexual tension between Miss Rose and Jack grows. Somebody’s being set up.

“419” is the third stand alone novel and was released in 2012. How far would you go to get revenge? Will Ferguson takes his readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is “419”, the world’s most insidious of Internet scams.

A woman with no name walks right out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. A car tumbles through the darkness down a snowy ravine. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, this criminal cartel scours the Internet, trying to find victims.

Worlds collide. Lives intersect. And it all starts with just a single email. Dear Sir, I’m a Nigerian diplomat’s daughter. And I need your help.

Once Laura Curtis, this lonely editor in a frigid northern city, learns that her dad’s died due to one such swindle, she sets off to find, and corner, her dad’s killer. It’s a dangerous game that she is playing, but the stakes are so much higher than she could ever have imagined.

Woven into her journey is this mysterious woman from the African Sahel with these scars etched into her skin and this young man that finds he’s caught up in a web of deceit and violence.

Running through all of it are a dad’s final words. You, I love.

“The Shoe on the Roof” is the fourth stand alone novel and was released in 2017. Thomas Rosanoff is a med student and researcher. His subjects are three homeless men that believe they are God.

Thomas’s life has been on a downward spiral ever since his girlfriend ended things. He’s a gifted medical student and spent his whole adult life struggling to escape from the legacy of his dad, who was an esteemed psychiatrist that used him as a test subject while Thomas was a boy. Thomas lived his whole childhood being watched over by researchers that lurked behind their one-way glass.

However the tables have now turned. Thomas is now the researcher and he is convinced that an experiment he’s concocted is going to cure these three homeless men of their delusional claims. When this experiment careens out of control though, he’s forced to confront the voices that echo in his mind and the ghosts from his own past.

This book is an explosively tour de force and questions our definitions of madness and sanity as it explores the magical reality which lies only beyond the world of scientific fact.

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