When I was still a student, I was lucky enough to have the chance to form a non-profit housing co-operative with my neighbours. The ten years I lived there, and time spent as a volunteer and employee in the housing co-operative sector, showed me what a difference safe, affordable housing can make in people’s lives.

That is the basis of my novel, Murder is Uncooperative, and the sequel I am working on now.

My mystery short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The People’s Friend, Mystery Magazine, and other magazines and anthologies.

I have recently completed a historical mystery, entitled Summer Smoke.  Earlier versions were finalists in the Freddie Award for Writing Excellence, sponsored by the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and the Killer Nashville Claymore Award 2019.

I am a former director of Crime Writers of Canada, and the former vice president of Sisters in Crime – Canada West. I’m also a member of the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

I served three years as a member of the Vancouver Police Board, which provides civilian oversight to the police department.

I live in Vancouver, with my husband and a very pampered cat. My house is over a hundred years old and was first owned by a police officer.