Michael Van Rooy

Michael Neelak Van Rooy is an author, administrator, and teacher. He has written three books in the critically acclaimed Monty Haaviko thriller series set in Winnipeg beginning with An Ordinary Decent Criminal (2005) published by Turnstone Press. In 2006 it won the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book by a Manitoba Author. It is published in Germany by Verlagsgruppe Lubbe as Ein gewohnlicher Verbrecher and is being released in the United States through Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books in August of 2010. A film version is in pre-production with Winnipeg’s Far Point Films and Big Mind Productions.