Winter may have frozen the flow of cargo into Hamilton’s harbour, but that doesn’t mean the port is silent. Eight ships are passing the winter here with each getting up to $1 million in repairs before heading back into the Great Lakes in the spring. “Win

THR is reporting that Karen Walton has been picked to bring Ian Hamilton‘s Ava Lee to the big screen. Lee is a Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant that specializes in recovering fortunes using less than traditional (or legal) means to do so. Working wit

TORONTO -- Scribe Karen Walton ("Gingersnaps") will adapt Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee crime novel series for the bigscreen, Toronto's Strada Films announced Friday. "The Water Rat of Wanchain," featuring the young globe-trotting Asian forensic accountant Ava

Karen Walton has been hired by Strada Films to adapt novelist Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee crime novel series into a potential feature film franchise says The Hollywood Reporter. The first book, "The Water Rat of Wanchai", follows the titular Chinese-Canadian

TORONTO - Karen Walton has been tapped by Strada Films to turn the Ava Lee crime novel series by Canadian writer Ian Hamilton into possibly the next The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo book to screen adaptation. The Canadian producer has chosen Hamilton’s de

Crime novels are hot. Thirteen of the 16 books on a recent New York Times fiction bestseller list were mysteries or thrillers. Readers love the page-turning plots and offbeat characters — such as Lisbeth Salander, the hacker in Stieg Larsson’s bestsellin