Simone St. James

Simone St. James is a Canadian author of suspense novels with a supernatural edge, set mostly in the 1920s to 1950s and in modern times. She spent about twenty years working in television before writing full time and lives outside Toronto.

Her debut, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, won two RITA Awards and the Arthur Ellis Award from Crime Writers of Canada, and An Inquiry into Love and Death was also an Arthur Ellis nominee. Her later books include The Broken Girls, The Sun Down Motel, The Book of Cold Cases and Murder Road.