Tony Thomson is the next featured author in our Acadia Alumni Book Club series. We invite you to read the novel now and plan to meet him and join the conversation on November 27, 7-8 p.m., during our next virtual Book Club meeting.

REGISTRATION: If you would like to participate, please e-mail Events Coordinator Sandra Symonds at: sandra.symonds@acadiau.ca.

Tony’s debut novel, About Face: A Mystery, was released by Moose House Publications in September 2022. The setting is fictitious Sterling County, nestled between Kings and Annapolis Counties in Nova Scotia. The story involves a missing college student and Ian Wallace, an awkward but thoughtful criminologist who teaches at Sterling University College who suffers from ennui and occasionally rides shotgun with Lauren Martin, an RCMP officer with a feminist bent. Together they emerge as an unlikely couple whose sensual way of eating together might lead to something deeper. Family secrets abound and the victim’s cryptic diary leaves clues as to what might have befallen her. The tongue-in-cheek humour will cause many a chuckle.

Tony taught sociology and criminology at Acadia for 34 years. He has written reams of papers and published two non-fiction textbooks with Oxford University Press. Involved for several years in a project researching rural policing, Tony went on many calls with town police and the RCMP. A popular teacher as well as a researcher, Tony won three Excellence in Teaching Awards presented by the Acadia Students’ Union and challenged many of his students with his own unique, passionate teaching style. Like Ian in About Face, noon-hour often found him playing basketball with the NBA (Noon-hour Basketball Association). Tony is currently living in Alberta.

For more information and to obtain a copy of About Face: A Mystery, contact Tony at tony.thomson@acadiau.ca or go to his author page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tony-Thomson-Author-103704399040717

We look forward to seeing you, and please keep in mind Book Club members do not have to be Acadia affiliates; the Club is open to everyone. You can register anytime and participate in the session of your choice.

So far, we’ve looked at the Honourable Donald Oliver’s (’50, ’07 HON) highly anticipated autobiography, A Matter of Equality:  The Life’s Work of Senator Don Oliver; Jim Prime’s (’69) and Ben Robicheau’s fictional comedy, Fish and Dicks: Case Files from Digby Neck and Islands Fish-Gutting Service and Detective Agency; Two Crows Sorrow, a work of creative fiction by Laura Churchill Duke (’98); Peter Cleveland’s (’72) Double Shot of Scotch; and most recently, Deborah Hemming’s novel, Throw Down Your Shadows.