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Crime writers descend on midtown pub for show

THE GANG'S ALL HERE: Members of the first Noir at the Bar Toronto of 2016 gather post show for a group photo. Back, from left, June Lorraine Roberts, Peter McGarvey, Rob Brunet, Dee Willson and Tanis Mallow. Front, left, Giles Blunt, John McFetridge, Dietrich Kalteis and Rosemary McCracken.
THE GANG’S ALL HERE: Members of the first Noir at the Bar Toronto of 2016 gather post-show for a group photo. Back row, from left, are June Lorraine Roberts, Peter McGarvey, Rob Brunet, Dee Willson and Tanis Mallow. Front row are Giles Blunt, John McFetridge, Dietrich Kalteis and Rosemary McCracken.

Some of Toronto’s, and Canada’s, crime writers descended on the Wallace Gastropub on June 2, to celebrate and share their craft.

Novelists Giles Blunt, Rob Brunet, Dietrich Kalteis, Tanis Mallow, Rosemary McCracken, John McFetridge, Peter McGarvey, June Lorraine Roberts and Dee Willson pored over their words under the amber-hued lights and over their beers.

Noir at the Bar is a semi-annual event hosted by Brunet and Mallow, and can trace its roots to novelist Peter Rozovsky’s Philadelphia flagship in 2008.