Shane Peacock is a novelist, playwright, journalist, and television screenwriter for audiences of all ages. His first book was a biography of the spectacular Canadian personality, “The Great Farini,”; his plays have been produced by the acclaimed 4th Line Theatre; his documentaries have included “Team Spirit,” aired on the CTV national network, and among his novels are Last Message, a contribution to the groundbreaking Seven Series for young readers and Double You, its sequel. His best-selling series for Young Adults, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, has been published in ten countries in twelve languages and has found its way onto more than fifty shortlists. It won the prestigious Violet Downey Award, The Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award, The Libris Award; has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, three times nominated for the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and each novel in the series was named a Junior Library Guild of America Premier Selection. His first picture book, The Artist and Me, and the first novel in his YA horror trilogy, The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim, both appear in the spring of 2016.