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Anthony Bidulka
Author of the Russell Quant Mystery Series
Amuse Bouche – Flight of Aquavit – Tapas on the Ramblas
Anthony Bidulka has enjoyed time well-spent and misspent in the worlds of academia, accounting, footwear, food services and farming. In 1999 Anthony Bidulka, BA, BEd, BComm, CA left a decade long career as a Chartered Accountant to pursue writing.
In 2003, Quill & Quire described Amuse Bouche: A Russell Quant Mystery, as “…an effervescent first novel that is much like the tasty French hors d’oeuvres from which it takes its name”, earning Bidulka a nomination for the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award.
Anthony Bidulka’s mystery series tells the story of a gay, novice private detective living a big life in a small, Canadian, prairie city. The Russell Quant series has been nominated for a Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards, a ReLit award and Flight of Aquavit was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery, making Bidulka the first Canadian to win in that category.
New York’s Mystery Scene Magazine recently said about Stain of the Berry, the latest in the Quant series: “With its sharp wit and generous helpings of heart, no one who reads Stain will ever see Canada in quite the same way again. Quant…makes for a riveting hero…the kind of friend you want to have—unless you’re a killer.”
The fifth book in the Russell Quant series, Sundowner Ubuntu, is due to be released October, 2007 (May 2008 in the US).
Like his protagonist, Anthony lives a big life in a small city on the Canadian prairie. He also loves to travel the world—meeting people, sampling food and wine, walking sun-drenched streets, making good use of swim-up bars, and being awed.
Anthony has toured extensively in both Canada and the United States including stops in Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, New York, New Orleans, Ann Arbor, Madison, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Washington, DC.
Anthony lives in Saskatoon where he is at work on his next novel.
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