SAM WIEBE is an award-winning and best-selling author of Pacific Northwest crime fiction.

His novels about Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland (The Last Exile, Sunset and Jericho, Hell and Gone, Cut You Down and Invisible Dead) are one of the most authentic and acclaimed contemporary detective series. Wiebe’s other work includes Ocean Drive, Last of the Independents, and the Ethan Brand series (A Lonesome Place for Dying and A Lonesome Place for Murder) under the pen name Nolan Chase.

Wiebe has been writer in residence at Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Public Library, edited the Vancouver Noir anthology, and has been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The National Post, The Walrus, Montecristo, and Image Comics, among many others.

He's won the Kobo Emerging Writers Prize and two Crime Writers of Canada awards, and been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes. 

 

“The best crime fiction writer in Canada.”
Nathan Ripley, author of Find You in the Dark

"one of those fabulously rare literary figures who actually gets better with each successive book"
​Steven Beattie, The Toronto Star

“The best of the crime genre.”
Charles Demers, author of Property Values

“One of the most respected names in crime fiction today and with good reason.”
Robyn Harding, author of The Drowning Woman

“Wiebe has an incredible ability to pull you through the page.”
Brent Butt, author of Huge

"A modern master of noir."
The Strand

"A terrific writer."
Margaret Cannon, CBC's The Next Chapter

"A master of tone and atmosphere."
Dead End Follies

“A master of the genre.”
Wisconsin Bookwatch

"No one is writing contemporary Vancouver better than Sam Wiebe."
Crimereads

“Wiebe has a gift for place and character.”
Steve Berry

“Vancouver’s terse poet of a city in decline outdoes his own high standards.”
The Toronto Star on Sunset and Jericho

“A terrific, pulse pounding read from cover to cover.”
Midwest Book Review on Hell and Gone

"Convincingly brings Raymond Chandler into the 21st century."
Publishers Weekly (starred) on Cut You Down

“A harrowing, superbly puzzling, and richly cinematic tale.”
The Vancouver Sun on Invisible Dead

“Quite possibly the definitive Vancouver crime novel.”
Owen Laukkanen on Invisible Dead

“A literary achievement.”
Booklist (starred) on Last of the Independents

"Delivers a knockout punch."
Sarah Weinman on Last of the Independents