After careers as a journalist, criminal lawyer, and political activist, William Deverell turned to fiction and on his first effort won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. Since then, he has earned multiple prizes for his 20 published novels, including the Dashiell Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing in North America, two Crime Writers of Canada Awards (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award)for best Canadian novel, and two runners-up for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He holds two honorary Doctor of Letters degrees. He lives in Pender Island, B.C.
“Elegant prose and an endearing lead ease the way through the
thicket of environmental issues. Fans of character-driven mysteries
will be rewarded.” — Publishers Weekly
“Along with its humor, every chapter of Stung offers both the cost
of taking moral action, and the deep suspense of being human.” — NY
Journal of Books
“Deverell’s Stung is relevant, rich with countless memorable
characters, loaded with courtroom suspense, and above all,
tremendously readable. Up there with some of my favourite legal
thrillers, a list that includes Turow and Connelly.” — Linwood
Barclay, New York Times bestselling author of Elevator Pitch and A
Noise Downstairs
“Stung — a blistering ride on a flaming meteor.” — Joy Kogawa,
author of acclaimed, award-winning novel Obasan
“Canada’s Raymond Chandler is at the top of his game in this
rollicking, riveting tale of youthful valour versus corporate
villainy. Both laugh-aloud funny and profound, Stung is a feast of
wit, satire and suspense to keep you up all night.” — Ronald
Wright, author of A Short History of Progress
“Some writers get better with age. Stung, William Deverell’s 9th
Arthur Beauchamp novel, might be the best yet: it is deliciously
witty, politically and ecologically timely, and filled with
characters you’d happily spend time with. Deverell isn’t just one
of our best crime/mystery writers. He’s one of our best writers,
period.” — Brian Fawcett, author of Virtual Clearcut, winner of the
2003 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
“No lawyer-turned-writer captures the hurly-burly of practicing
real-life criminal law quite like William Deverell with his
hilarious, enthralling plots. Stung is vintage Deverell at his
razor-sharp best.” — Michael Slade, author of the Special X Mountie
Noir thrillers
“Irreverent, bawdy, and boisterous, Deverell’s foray into radical
environmentalism on trial keeps the reader riveted until the last
page. The courtroom scenes are brilliant.” — Beverley McLachlin,
former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, author of Full
Disclosure and Truth Be Told
“Deverell deftly takes the sobering ecological catastrophe of
crashing bee populations and turns it into a raunchy, rollicking,
and riveting tale. It kept me up late laughing, and I wolfishly
read it in a couple of days, cheering on the spunky heroine.” — Dr.
David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and
Environment
“Arthur Beauchamp fans will not be disappointed as William Deverell
takes us on another romp through politics, eco-saboteurs, and all
things Green. This time, he adds a great character in Rivie
Levitsky. A first-class page-turner!” — Elizabeth May, MP, and
former leader of the Green Party of Canada
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