{"id":940028,"date":"2026-10-20T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940028\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:20:08","slug":"don-macdonald-sets-his-second-detective-novel-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940028\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Macdonald sets his second detective novel in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can take the writer out of Winnipeg, but you can\u2019t take Winnipeg out of the writer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don Macdonald, a former Gazette journalist, has just published his second mystery novel, The Faithful, and like the first, Omand\u2019s Creek, it\u2019s set in his hometown of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macdonald moved to Montreal from the Peg in 1989 at the age of 28, coming to work as a reporter with The Canadian Press here. He has been in Montreal ever since, moving eventually from CP to The Gazette, where he toiled for 12 years as a reporter, most notably in the Business section. After leaving The Gazette, he joined the Business Development Bank of Canada as a writer and editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can take the writer out of Winnipeg, but you can\u2019t take Winnipeg out of the writer. Don&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-940028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}