Norah McClintock is best known as one of Canada’s top mystery writers for young adults. Some of her most popular series are Chloe and Levesque, Mike and Riel and Robyn Hunter, each featuring a teenage sleuth. She is a five-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, for Mistaken Identity, The Body in the Basement, Sins of the Father, Scared to Death and Break and Enter. She was also nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for her non-fiction title, Body, Crime, Suspect, and for the prestigious Anthony Award for No Escape.
Though McClintock’s degree is in History and she has worked as a volunteer at Toronto’s Spadina House, this is her first historical novel. As she says, “It’s time to put that knowledge to use.”
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