Keith Landry began writing heavily at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Submitted/Keith Landry)
The COVID pandemic has left many people with a lot of time on their hands, and at least one man has put it to good use.
Keith Landry, 70, from Regina, says he has always loved writing but he never had the time to really immerse himself in his passion for it.
Since writing his first story almost two years ago, Landry has now published six true crime books. Five of them came out in 2020, during the pandemic.
“The first story I wrote was inspired by a story that I had heard many years ago that my grandfather told me when I was 10 years of age,” Landry said. “My grandfather was one of the first officers to go to a mass murder on an island in west Quebec called Allumette Island, he told me that story, what happened, and I remembered it so I thought I would put it on paper.”