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Kathy-Diane Leveille is a former broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who discovered the only thing more thrilling than reading a great suspense novel is trying to write one. Her short story collection, Roads Unravelling (Sumach Press), was published to critical acclaim after a selection from its pages Learning to Spin was adapted to radio drama for CBC's Summer Drama Festival. The tale Showdown at the Four Corner's Corral was revised for the stage and performed by New City Theater in Saint John. Her debut suspense novel, Let the Shadows Fall Behind You, was published by Kunati Books April 2009. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Canada, International Thrill Writers, TWUC and Kiss of Death RWA.
Kathy-Diane's prose has been published in a number of literary journals including Grain, Room of One's Own, Oklahoma Review, Pottersfield Portfolio and The Cormorant, as well as various anthologies such as Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction (Pottersfield Press) and New Brunswick Short Stories (Neptune). Along with being awarded numerous Canada Council Art Grants, Kathy-Diane's fiction won the Short Grain Contest (dramatic monologue) in 2000 and was listed as a finalist in the Writers' Union of Canada Short Fiction Contest in 2002. Her poetry received Honorable Mention in the Stephen Leacock International Poetry Competition. A humorous commentary I Know What You Didn't Do Last Summer aired on CBC's national morning show with Shelagh Rogers.
"Her settings and characters - their hopes and fears, verbal and behavioural ticks, even their smells - are keenly observed." - The Globe and Mail
- Let the Shadows Fall Behind You. Kunati Books, Spring 2009. ISBN 978-1601641670
- Filled with quirky, heartwarming characters, this novel is a late coming-of-age story shaped by the eternal redeeming power of female friendship. Brannagh Maloney returns to her hometown for a reunion of old friends, carrying the burden of thinking she has lost her lover, Nikolai Mirsky. Once there, she finds it hard to ignore old family secrets, and decides to visit the house where she was raised and treated cruelly by her grandfather. Brannagh forces the old man to tell her what happened to her mother, and the shocking truth finally sets her free as she understands why her grandfather had acted so harshly. When Nikolai turns up unexpectedly, Brannagh's life takes another turn as her mysterious past deepens.
- Roads Unravelling. Sumach Press, 2003. ISBN 1-894549-28-7.
- "Leveille's writing sings of heartbreak and redemption, and the wicked, dancing moments in between. A wise and stirring debut." - Carol Bruneau
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