I've been writing all my life, first in journalism and then in corporate communications. Death on a Dig is my first fiction. It's a mystery story set around the disappearance of a young woman from an archaeological dig in Mexico. Gwen Madden goes looking for her on behalf of the girl's distraught mother—and discovers a kidnapping, a tale about a trove of stolen artifacts and—oh, yes—a dead body, in fact, more than one. I've travelled in the UK, continental Europe, India, Mexico and Central America. Before apartheid was defeated in South Africa, I spent five years in Mozambique as an international volunteer, and I recently volunteered again for six months to work with a small social agency in northern India. Girls of Summer, my first published book, resulted from my work as a researcher with CTV's national public affairs program W5. I retired a couple of years ago and am focusing on writing and epublishing mystery fiction.