Purchase 6:40 to Montreal from your local indie bookstore https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781552455074/

Read Eva Jurczyk's essay "My character, my cancer and how my art reflects my life" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-my-character-my-cancer-and-how-my-art-reflects-my-life/

My book, Definitely Thriving:

from your local bookshop: https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781487013936/

from Indigo: https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/definitely-thriving-a-novel/9781487013936.html

From Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Definitely-Thriving-Novel-Kerry-Clare/dp/1487013930/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PMJJOC69JHZB&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sWVQ1qYuWFqbCC5wQ_wmq83Vs_0GBgBAU4OyxgCCvCzGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.dHIYmVKXdn-7EtZX4YSrjNwqv79bgsH5GbliB5folaI&dib_tag=se&keywords=definitely+thriving&qid=1767376359&sprefix=definitely+thriving%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-1

From Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/definitely-thriving-kerry-clare/1147425682?ean=9781487013936

Eva Jurczyk is amazing, the kind of person with whom conversation can leap from references to Swahili pulp fiction to one of the most hyped thrillers of all time (but made fresh again). Her new novel, 6:40 to Montreal, is a USA Today bestseller, a monthly mystery pick from Barnes & Noble, just as bloody and deranged as her previous thriller, That Night in the Library, but with an achingly human narrative thread that has the whole novel throbbing with love and meaning.

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We talked about her novel’s debt to Agatha Christie and Murder on the Orient Expression, and also about what Jurcyk herself has learned about the writer’s craft from Christie, plus how her work as a librarian has influenced her as a reader and a writer. And then we turn to Gillian Flynn’s runaway bestseller, a book whose greatness and ingenuity is easy to forget in light of all the hype that came to surround it. Finally, Jurczyk continues to hold the line on her take that Blundstones are wholly inappropriate for Canadian winters.

This was so much fun, and I hope you like it too!

About 6:40 TO MONTREAL:

From international bestselling author Eva Jurczyk, 6:40 TO MONTREAL is a claustrophobic, deceivingly bloody thriller that follows Agatha as she uses one day on the famous six-hour morning train from Toronto to Montreal as a mini writing retreat to finish her novel. No WiFi, no distractions. And no way out...

Agatha’s husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift - a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book, a highly-anticipated follow-up to Agatha’s runaway bestseller debut novel. The first-class car is the perfect place to be productive, with only a handful of other passengers, plenty of snacks and drinks, and beautiful views flying by outside the window.

But Agatha has other plans for her day out. . . plans that are unexpectedly derailed when the train breaks down in the middle of the frigid Canadian woods and one of Agatha’s fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat. Soon, a pleasant morning in transit turns into a fight for survival against an unknown and unseen enemy. Will Agatha--or any of the passengers--make it out alive?

Eva Jurczyk was born in a mining town in Poland and wound up halfway around the world in a Canadian city that often masquerades as New York in the movies. As her day job, she buys books, building library collections for the University of Toronto Libraries. She travels to Paris whenever the wind is good but currently lives with her husband, son, and collections of books in Toronto, Canada.

Pre-order my new novel, Definitely Thriving, coming March 17 from House of Anansi Press

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