Rob Brunet’s debut Stinking Rich asks, What could possibly go wrong when a backwoods biker gang hires a high school dropout to tend a barn full of high-grade marijuana? Plenty, it turns out. Rob co-hosts Toronto’s Noir at the Bar—gritty crime fiction, read in a bar, three or four times a year. He teaches creative writing at George Brown College, where he makes his students write more than they dream possible. His award-winning short crime fiction appears in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Thuglit, Shotgun Honey, Out of the Gutter, and numerous anthologies. Rob shares his time between Toronto and the lakes and rivers that surround it. He loves beaches, bonfires, and the bush—all of which feature in his work.

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