Shane Peacock

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rdf:langString Shane Peacock is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and television screenwriter. His first book The Great Farini was a biography of the colourful Canadian personality William Leonard Hunt. His plays have been produced by the 4th Line Theatre; his documentaries have included Team Spirit, aired on the CTV national network, and among his novels are Last Message, part of the Seven Series for young readers; Double You, its sequel; and Separated, its prequel. His best-selling series for young adults, The Boy Sherlock Holmes, has been published in ten countries in twelve languages and has appeared on more than forty shortlists. It won the prestigious IODE Violet Downey Book Award, two Arthur Ellis Awards for crime fiction, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, the Libris Award, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and three times nominated for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. As well, each novel in the series was named a Junior Library Guild Premier Selection. His first picture book, The Artist and Me, appeared in 2016 and quickly became a Junior Library Guild selection, and Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award nominee. His teen Gothic horror trilogy, The Dark Missions of Edgar Brim, begun in 2016, became a John Spray Mystery Award nominee and was followed in early 2018 by Monster.