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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.”
Landry s first book
Allumette Island Massacre and Three Other Canadian Crime Stories was released on Amazon on Dec. 16, 2019, just after his 70th birthday. According to Amazon, the first printing of the novel sold out within three weeks. It currently has a 4.5 star rating.
It become a spectacle in that part of the country.
- Keith Landry
In it, Landry tells the story of Michael Bradley, who during the Great Depression was having trouble with his father and family over the land they had bought during good years. Landry said the man killed his entire family over arguments about how the farm should be run.