The Roar of the Crowd

A 2014 release, The Roar of the Crowd is a funny and thrilling academic mystery set in and around the Edmonton theatre scene, as well as the University of Alberta English and Drama departments. With the help of her friend Denise, Randy has landed a summer job with a high school theatre program linked to the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. But when a local actor shows up dead and Denise is the prime suspect, Randy has to find to a way to solve the mystery while surrounded with suspects who are trained actors with finely-tuned skills in the arts of deception and make-believe. As the body count increases, the danger to Randy and Denise also continues to build right up to the book’s exciting climax at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival!

2014 Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival Photo Gallery: Check out a fun gallery of author Janice MacDonald posing with mystery readers, Fringe performers and playwrights, local writer friends, and much more! You can find it right here.

Praise for The Roar of the Crowd:

“MacDonald infuses Randy Craig’s life with depth and detail that elevates her beyond the generic protagonist… She feels like a real person, and the rest of the cast shares that spark of life.”
—The Winnipeg Review

“The Roar of the Crowd is a terrific little mystery.”
—The Winnipeg Free Press

“We have lots of great Edmonton authors, but my fave is Janice MacDonald for her Randy Craig novels — #yeg and academia! I highly recommend The Roar of the Crowd, a celebration of the city’s theatre scene wrapped up in a murder mystery.”
—Kelly MacFarlane, University of Alberta lecturer

“Like a tourist guide wrapped in a wonderfully-written mystery story… makes you want to go to Edmonton and experience the vibrant cultural scene and explore the beautiful river valley. I think it’s time to plan a trip there, myself!”
—Marlyn Beebe, Crime Fiction Collective/Stuff and Nonsense

Praise for Janice MacDonald’s Randy Craig Mystery series:

“Janice MacDonald populates academe with real characters and puts the humanity back into the Humanities. Of course, she picks one or two of them off now and then, which is all right with me, too.”
—W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe and Butterfly Winter

“Edmonton’s Janice MacDonald is the most literary of the new gang of Canadian fictional murderers.”
—SubTerrain

“Janice MacDonald does for Edmonton what Gail Bowen did for Regina, Saskatchewan. She rejects the frozen north stereotype by showing the ‘City of Festivals’ in all its lazy summer glory.”
—Reviewing the Evidence mystery blog

Published by Ravenstone Books/Turnstone Press
ISBN: 978-0888014702

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