We’re excited to share the details for the Grimsby Author Series Spring 2026 season and invite you to join us for another year of engaging conversations and community connection. All events take place at the Carnegie Building and begin at 7:00 PM.

Spring 2026 Dates

  • Friday, March 27
    • Jennifer Chevalier / The Winter Witch
    • Brian Goldman / The Casino Shift
  • Friday, April 17
    • Heather Marshall / Liberty Street
    • Shari Lapena / She Didn’t See It Coming
  • Friday, May 22
    • Bar Fridman-Tell / Honeysuckle
    • Kate Hilton / City of the Muse

Scroll down to learn more abut each novel in the spring season and place your hold in the catalogue

March 27 - Jennifer Chevalier and Brian Goldman

Jennifer Chevalier

Author of The Winter Witch

Two sisters set sail on a bride ship from Normandy hoping to leave a curse behind them and find better lives in the wilds of 17th-century Quebec, only to meet a mysterious witch who forces them to confront the truth about magic—and their past. For fans of Emilia Hart, Sarah Penner, Alix E. Harrow, Ami McKay, and Roberta Rich.

Inspired by the tales of Canada’s Filles du Roi, The Winter Witch examines how lies, arrogance, and ignorance can lead to witch hunts in any society.

Brian Goldman

Author of The Casino Shift: Stories from an ER on the Edge

For fans of The Pitt, a look at life on the front line in one of Canada’s busiest ERs

The Casino Shift is an hour-by-hour account of what a Canadian emergency room is like in these turbulent times when ER staff must be prepared to see, diagnose, and treat any condition, often under unrelenting pressure. In addition to the introduction of the “casino shift” (a shorter night shift), there have been incredible leaps in technology and the know-how of ER physicians since Dr. Brian Goldman wrote the bestselling The Night Shift fifteen years ago. But patients’ problems can be exponentially more complex too.

But The Casino Shift is about much more than one shift at one hospital, though. It’s also about what goes on in ERs big and small across Canada. From the incredible challenges of practising “waiting room medicine,” to discovering untreated cancer in a twenty-something patient, to diagnosing an extremely rare case of auto-brewery syndrome, Dr. Goldman shares the stories of frustrated and burned-out colleagues as well as the passion they have for being there in your hour of greatest need. With inspiring stories about diagnoses made, puzzles solved, and lives saved, The Casino Shift is a raw, revealing, and compelling look at life on the front line.

April 17 - Heather Marshall and Shari Lapena 

Heather Marshall

Author of Liberty Street

From the #1 bestselling Canadian author of Looking for Jane comes a riveting novel about one journalist's harrowing journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women's prison—and the detective who uncovers her story decades later.

Inspired by true events, Liberty Street is at once poignant and dazzling—an unforgettable, intertwining story about resilience, mental health, and the power of female connection.

Shari Lapena

Author of She Didn't See it Coming

The Gripping new psychological thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Everyone here is Lying and The Couple Next Door.

When a beloved wife and mother disappears, a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene, and the investigation begins: can the detectives find her before it's too late? Bryden and Sam have it all: thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden -- working from home that day -- has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife's car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. It's as if she just walked out. How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all? With every minute that passes -- and as questions swirl around their community -- Bryden and Sam's past seems a little less perfect, their condominium less safe, their friends, neighbours and relatives no longer quite so reliable . . .

May 22 - Bar Fridman-Tell and Kate Hilton

Bar Fridman-Tell

Author of Honeysuckle

In a lush, quiet field, a girl made of flowers opens her eyes and meets Rory, a boy who is desperate to have a friend. Magic and horror collide in this stunning debut that explores power, consent, loneliness, and what makes a person.

She was made for him.

Loosely based on Welsh mythology, Honeysuckle is a heartbreaking fable of longing and need—for love, for control, and for freedom—and a psychological fairy tale perfect for readers of Eowyn Ivey and V. E. Schwab. Part Wuthering Heights, part Frankenstein, it is its own fantastically twisted tale from a singular new talent in Bar Fridman-Tell.

Kate Hilton

Author of City of the Muse

For fans of The Lost Apothecary, a gripping dual-timeline novel about the mysterious death of an indomitable female papyrologist during an archaeological dig in the early 1900s and an aspiring young female researcher’s present-day quest to find out who killed her.


An ill-fated dig. An ancient city believed to be cursed. And a century-old mystery at the heart of it all.