Yesterday on X we brought you the exclusive cover reveal of Quant, the ninth novel in Canadian crime author Anthony Bidulka’s detective series and the first in nearly 15 years.
Russell Quant is a lot of things. He doesn’t drink wine, he swills it. He hits you with lines like Philip Marlowe, but they’re of his own design. He’s gay, he’s half Irish and half Ukrainian. He grew up on a farm and he’s been a cop. Now he’s a private detective and readers who’ve met him have revelled in stories like Amuse Bouche (2000), Tapas on the Ramblas (2005) and Sundowner Ubuntu (2007) – travelling all over the world solving crimes and having other adventures.
Quant will be out on 30 September 2026, and with the new novel Anthony Bidulka is bringing fresh verve and vigour to the character. After all that time away and after all those journeys, Russell Quant will be back in his home town on the Canadian prairies – Howell, Saskatchewan to be more precise. One spring day, a local resident is found dead at the bottom of a gorge. Did he fall, did he jump, was he pushed?
Well, this is a crime novel…
The suicide note doesn’t throw Quant for long and soon he realises a lot of the assumptions he’d made about his lovely home town might be wrong. Just like a lot of the assumptions people have made about him over the years have been wrong. Right? Now he’s unearthing the town’s secrets, unmasking its deceptions and embarking on an excursion that will take him from a remote rural town to the sun-swathed Caribbean.
Get ready for betrayal, deceit, perhaps a little love and… what we always bring you… mystery! And if Quant doesn’t solve it, his town could be torn apart.
There will be more news on the Quant series soon, so watch this space.
Quant is now available to pre-order via Anthony Bidulka’s website, or using our Amazon buttons below.
