L. R. Wright

L. R. Wright is the author of fifteen novels. She is the two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction, first for A Chill Rain in January and then for Mother Love, which also won the Canadian Authors Association Award for literary fiction. She received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Best Novel Award for The Suspect. L. R. Wright died in February 2001. In Spring 2001 the Crime Writers of Canada honoured L. R. Wright with the Derrick Murdoch Award for lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to crime fiction.