About Cathy

Winner of the 2014 Bony Blithe Mystery Award for Framed for Murder.

Reading has always been important to me. As a youngster, I cut my teeth on the Nancy Drew girl-detective mysteries before continuing to the Sherlock Holmes series, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion. Why does a young person read the classics? I guess the romance of these stories and the historical flavour appealed to me. At the same time, I was devouring all of the Agatha Christie novels, and later came to appreciate Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey and Margery Allingham's Campion stories. Reading Christie, Sayers, and Allingham, the three grand dames of English mystery, taught me a great deal about plotting and suspense.

Framed for Murder is the first story in the Anna Nolan amateur sleuth mystery series set in a fictional small town in the Alberta Foothills. The next two books, Town Haunts and Tidings of Murder and Woe, both have holiday themes as one is set at Halloween and the other at Christmas. Poor Anna, she's had such a busy year!

I've also released two stand-alone romances, a contemporary romance called The Dating Do Over, and a regency romance entitled The Affairs of Harriet Walters, Spinster. 

My current project is an historical mystery set in Kentville, Nova Scotia during the age of speakeasies and bootleggers.

It's all a great adventure, and I hope to still be writing and publishing in my "golden years."  

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