I am a retired economist who writes detective novels in the series The ABC Files. My protagonist, Hamish Cameron, is a retired judge who lives in the fictional Nova Scotia town of Ashcroft-by-the-Sea. My wife Betsy and I live in the early-19th-century Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, home bought by my parents over 50 years ago. Not coincidentally, Ashcroft-by-the-Sea and Niagara-on-the-Lake have a certain resemblance. However, all the characters in the former are fictitious, and not patterned after residents of the latter!
When not writing I enjoy gardening, hiking, and sailing. To the left is a photo of me on my sailboat, Fugue, a 1984 Freedom 25. There are frequent references to sailing in The ABC Files, as well as to the music of Johan Sebastian Bach. A fugue is a piece of baroque music championed by Bach that features a flight of notes, and fugue also means flight. In French, the word also has the connotation of escape, as in a joy-ride.
