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Sam Wiebe


Sam Wiebe is an award-winning and best-selling author of Pacific Northwest crime fiction.

His novels featuring Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland include Invisible Dead, Cut You Down, Hell and Gone, Sunset and Jericho, and the upcoming The Last Exile. The series has been praised for its authenticity and social realism.

He’s also the author of Ocean Drive, Last of the Independents, Never Going Back, and A Lonesome Place for Dying under the pen name Nolan Chase, and the editor of Vancouver Noir. Wiebe has won the Crime Writers of Canada award and the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize, and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, Independent Publisher, and City of Vancouver book awards. He’s been writer in residence at Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Public Library, and has been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The National Post, The Walrus, Montecristo, and Image Comics, among others.

Sam Wiebe