EP :32 Keith Mercer & Emily Hepditch
My first guest on today’s show, Keith Mercer, was born in Gander. NL, and currently lives in Bedford, NS. He holds graduate degrees in history from Memorial and Dalhousie Universities and currently works for Parks Canada as the Cultural Resource Manager in Mainland Nova Scotia based at Halifax Citadel National Historic Site. He’s an historian and the ideal person to write a book called Rough Justice on the early history of policing and crime in Newfoundland. My second guest on today’s show is Emily Hepditch. It is my pleasure to welcome Emily back for the second time. Emily is an award-winning author from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. She was a guest on LGW last year, if you’d like to check out her interview the link is provided below. In 2020, Emily’s debut thriller, The Woman in the Attic, was published by Flanker Press and quickly rose to the #1 spot for local interest books in Newfoundland. Her debut novel remained on the Atlantic Books Today top five local bestsellers list for ten consecutive months. The Woman in the Attic has also been shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing for Best Crime First Novel Category. In this show we talk about her most recent book, Alone on the Trail, another great thriller! Both authors are published by Flanker Press.