Seldom Seen Road Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the Toronto launch of John Degen's novel Seldom Seen Road on Wednesday, May 20th at The Society Clubhouse. John will be in conversation with Janet Somerville, author of Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love & War 1930-1949.

Seldom Seen Road is the first in the Burnt River series of murder mysteries featuring the Roth family detective trio: Mark, his daughter Stephanie, and his cousin Jeremy.
Of the three, Mark has the least solid claim on the art of solving murders, but he is driven by the insistent busybody nature of the recently retired. Profoundly hard-of-hearing after a career in musical performance, and equally disappointed with finding himself alone in his world after the death of his beloved wife, Mark stubbornly and clumsily puts himself in harm’s way to draw out the truth. Constable Jeremy Roth is the muscle of the group, patrolling the northern highways for the local police detachment and investigating on the ground. Mark’s beloved daughter, Stephanie, building her name as a criminologist at the university in Thunder Bay, gets to the details of the matter using her academic credentials and her innate puzzle-solving instincts.

John Degen is a poet and novelist with three published books. He holds a Master’s degree in Literature from the University of Toronto. His debut novel, The Uninvited Guest, was shortlisted for the 2006 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. His essays and opinions have been published widely throughout Canada, including in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Quill & Quire, and the Literary Review of Canada. Degen has worked on behalf of other authors for the past thirty years. He is Chief Executive Officer of The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC). He lives and works, happily, in Thessalon, Ontario, with occasional reluctant visits to Toronto and Ottawa.