Name: Misdirections and Red Herrings that Don’t Cheat
Start: 2026-10-21T15:00:00-0600
End: 2026-10-21T15:45:00-0600

Misdirections and Red Herrings that Don’t Cheat

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT

Glen 208

Like magicians, writers misdirect a reader’s attention. Magicians never tell how tricks are done, but writers do.

Moderators

Therese Greenwood

Therese Greenwood’s short crime fiction received a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence and a Western Writers of America Spur Award. Her recent book with an Indigenous Elder received an Axiom Bronze Medal and was nominated for an Alberta Literary Award. Her memoir was a Finalist... Read More →

Speakers

Karen Dodd

Karen Dodd writes international suspense exploring justice, corruption, and the personal cost of truth. Her novel Everybody Knows introduces Italian prosecutor Nicoló Moretti, whose investigation into political corruption in Malta turns personal when he discovers he has a young son... Read More →

Ande Pliego

Ande Pliego is the USA Today bestselling author of You Are Fatally Invited and The Library After Dark. She began writing stories when she discovered she could actually wield her overactive imagination for good. Born in Florida, raised in France, and having left footprints all over... Read More →

Melinda Mullet

Formerly a communications, media and entertainment lawyer Melinda is now enjoying a second career as a mystery writer. Author of the Whisky Business Mysteries, a traditional mysteries set in and around a single malt whisky distillery in Scotland. Traditional mystery, A Ghostwriter’s... Read More →

E.N. Crane

Wednesday October 21, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
Glen 208 136 8th Avenue SE Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 0K6

Bouchercon2026: Calgary

Therese Greenwood

Karen Dodd

Ande Pliego

Melinda Mullet

E.N. Crane

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Bouchercon2026: Calgary

Therese Greenwood

Karen Dodd

Ande Pliego

Melinda Mullet

E.N. Crane

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