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Janice MacDonald
Janice Elva MacDonald (born 1959 in Banff, Alberta) is a Canadian writer of literary and mystery novels, textbooks, non-fiction, and stories for both adults and children. She is best known as the creator of a series of comic academic mystery novels featuring reluctant amateur sleuth Miranda "Randy" Craig, all of which are set in Edmonton, Alberta.〔Chua, "Killer FICTIONista", "(Edmonton Woman Magazine )"〕 The latest of these, ''Another Margaret: A Randy Craig Mystery'', released in September 2015, takes Miranda to a reunion of her fellow graduate school students and resurrects a mystery involving a Canadian literary figure who has been long-believed dead.〔〔Armstrong, "Writers descending on city this month", "(Winnipeg Free Press )"〕 ''The Roar of the Crowd: A Randy Craig Mystery'' was released on July 10, 2014, with a plot involving the Edmonton theatre scene, including the Freewill Shakespeare Festival and the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival.〔Edmonton Journal, "Literary Events", "(Calendar )"〕〔CBC Radio Edmonton Sound Files, "Nola Keeler interviews Janice MacDonald", "(Daybreak Alberta )"〕 ''The Roar of the Crowd'' quickly became the #1 fiction book in Edmonton,〔Edmonton Journal, "Bestsellers", "(Bestsellers July 25, 2014 )"〕 making it the third consecutive bestseller for the author, and it went on to be nominated for the David Award for Best Mystery Novel at the 2015 Deadly Ink Conference and featured as a recommended read in both the ''2015 Edmonton Travel Guide'' and the 2015 ''Avenue Magazine'' Summer Reading Guide.〔Mystery Fanfare, "Deadly Ink David Award Nominees", "(2015 David Award Nominees )"〕〔InfoEdmonton, "4 Great Books from Edmonton Authors", "(2015 Edmonton Travel Guide )"〕〔Avenue Magazine, "Avenue's Summer Reading Guide", "(2015 Summer Reading Guide )"〕 ''Condemned to Repeat: A Randy Craig Mystery,'' was published on June 15, 2013, and involves a series of deadly events connected to Alberta historic sites, including Rutherford House, Fort Edmonton Park, and the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village; it debuted in the top spot on the Edmonton Journal's bestseller list on June 21, 2013 and went on to be shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards as well as the David Award for Best Mystery Novel at the 2014 Deadly Ink Conference.〔Edmonton Journal, "Bestsellers", "(Top 10 List )"〕〔Manitoba Writers' Guild, "2013 Manitoba Book Awards Shortlist Announced", "(News Release )"〕〔Mystery Fanfare, "Deadlly Ink David Award Nominations", "(2014 David Award Nominees )"〕 ''Hang Down Your Head: A Randy Craig Mystery,'' was published in November 2011 and features "cameo" appearances by several real-life folk musicians, as well as a corpse discovered at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival.〔Graves, "Folk music, junior hockey … mysteries don’t get more Canadian than this", "(Hamilton Spectator )",〕 The book was a hit in MacDonald's home city and spent more than six months on the Edmonton Journal's Top 10 list.〔Edmonton Journal, "Bestsellers", "(Top 10 List )"〕〔MacLachlan, "Booksellers optimistic heading in to holidays", "(Quill and Quire )"〕 The book and its author were profiled on CBC Radio,〔CBC Radio Edmonton Audio Files, "Christmas Book Show 2011", "(Daybreak Alberta )"〕 CityTV's Breakfast Television show,〔CityTV Video Files, "Janice MacDonald Interview", "(Breakfast Television Edmonton )",〕 in the Edmonton Journal,〔Withey, "Murder at the Folk Fest? Only in fiction", "(Edmonton Journal )",〕 and in the Edmonton Examiner.〔Robb, "Mystery, she wrote: Local author unveils her latest in a series of murder-mysteries set here in Edmonton", "(Edmonton Examiner )",〕 A January 2012 cover story in ''Edmonton Woman Magazine''〔 and a half-hour interview on the CKUA Radio Network's ArtBeat program,〔CKUA Radio Network Audio File, "(February 19: ArtBeat Interviews Author Janice MacDonald )"〕 looked more extensively at the entire mystery series.
== Works ==
The Randy Craig Mysteries put a spin on the "ivory tower" academic mysteries by presenting a lead character who cannot seem to land a tenure-track position.〔Journal of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, "(Book Review: Hang Down Your Head )"〕 Instead, she changes jobs on the periphery of academe in each new adventure, managing to find trouble (and a body or two) wherever she goes.〔 The novels have been celebrated for their use of the city of Edmonton as a "star character."〔Hingston, " Those juicy flashes of home", "(Edmonton Journal feature story )"〕 MacDonald herself wrote her Master's thesis on detective fiction〔 and appeared as an on-air mystery expert for the Canadian television series "Booked".〔Booked TV, "Booked Experts", "(Janice MacDonald )"〕
Ms. MacDonald's non-mystery works include award-winning non-fiction and children's titles.〔Writer's Guild of Alberta, "Bibliography", "(MacDonald, Janice )"〕 The best-known of these is a well-received chapter book for young readers, ''The Ghouls' Night Out''.〔McNaughton, "Review: The Ghouls' Night Out", "(Quill and Quire )"〕〔Ito, "Books at Bedtime: The Ghouls' Night Out", "(Paper Tigers )"〕
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