Elizabeth’s first novel, The Cold Light of Mourning, has won both the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant (2006) for unpublished writers and the St. Martin’s Press/Malice (2008) award for best first novel.

Elizabeth is the first author to win both awards, and the first Canadian to win either.

Elizabeth was thrilled to be nominated for both Agatha and Arthur Ellis awards in the best first mystery category. She congratulates Alan Bradley, author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, who won both.

Her second novel, A Brush with Death, will be published in July, 2010.

Book launch! The official launch for A Brush with Death will be held Monday, July 26 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Alderwood Public Library, 2 Orianna Dr., Toronto. Copies will be available for cash purchase ($20). Also available will be paperback copies of The Cold Light of Mourning ($10).