Vicki Delany is a national bestseller in the U.S and one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers. She has written more than twenty-five books, everything from Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is now loving writing cozy mysteries. A former computer programmer and systems analyst, Vicki lives and writes in bucolic Prince Edward County, Ontario. She is the past president of the Crime Writers of Canada. This is her first Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery.