Suzanne North

Suzanne North (born 1945) is a Canadian author based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

North has written for magazines, documentary films and CBC Television. She is also the author of the Phoebe Fairfax mystery series.^[1][2] Her mystery novels have sold well in Canada (her first book is in its third printing) as well as internationally (most notably Germany and Iceland).^[3] Her latest work, a literary novel, Flying Time, was published in 2014.^[4][5] The Historical Novel Society has written that "Flying Time is an example of what literary historical fiction does well: provides a snapshot of a time and place through the small evolutions in relationships in a clearly defined context. North's evocation of Calgary in 1939 is masterly, a clear sketch that is never too heavy on detail."^[6]

David Skene-Melvin's chapter "Canadian Crime Writing in English" found in Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film highlights North's importance to the genre of Crime fiction in Canada: "One of the more welcome aspects of the proliferation of crime writing during the last generation is the exponential increase in female detectives by female writers" including Suzanne North.^[7]

Her 1994 mystery, Healthy, Wealthy and Dead (NeWest Press), was on the Crime Writers of Canada's best-seller list and was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award.^[8]

• — (1994). Healthy Wealthy, & Dead. NeWest Publishers, Limited. ISBN 9780920897553.
• — (1996). Seeing is Deceiving. Starburst Digital Rights International Incorporated. ISBN 9781928014027.
• — (2002). Bones to Pick. Starburst Digital Rights International Incorporated. ISBN 9781928014041.
• — (2014). Flying Time. Brindle and Glass. ISBN 9781927366233.

• Author's website