Cathy Ace

Sub-genre: Amateur detective, Cosy, Humour, mystery, noir, psychological, suspense

Cathy Ace was born, raised, and educated in Wales, then migrated to Canada aged 40. Having traveled the world (for business and pleasure) for decades, Cathy put her knowledge of the cultures, history, art, and food she encountered to good use in the Cait Morgan Mysteries – a series of traditional whodunits featuring a globetrotting Welsh Canadian professor of criminal psychology. These books have been optioned by Free@LastTV (Agatha Raisin).

Ace also writes the #1 amazon bestselling cosy WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries, featuring four female PIs (one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish, one English). They tackle quirky, quintessentially British cases from a Welsh stately home in the rolling countryside of the Wye Valley.

Her standalone tale of psychological suspense, The Wrong Boy, also became an amazon #1 bestseller, and is due to become a bilingual TV mini series.

Cathy lives on five rural acres in British Columbia, where her ever-supportive husband ensures she’s able to work full-time as an author, and enjoy her other great passion – gardening. She’s been shortlisted for the Bony Blithe Award three times in four years, winning in 2015, has won IPPY and IBA Awards, has been shortlisted twice for a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence and the Crimefictionlover’s Best Indie of the Year Award. Cathy was Chair of Crime Writers of Canada from 2016-2018.

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Other Awards

2015 Winner of the Bony Blithe Award for Best Canadian Light Mystery for Cait Morgan Mystery No. 4, The Corpse with the Platinum Hair

2017 Shortlisted for Arthur Ellis Award (now renamed the Crime Writers of Canada’s Awards of Excellence) for Best Short Story for Steve’s Story in The Whole She-Bang 3 (Sisters in Crime); shortlisted for Bony Blithe Award for Best Canadian Light Mystery for Cait Morgan Mystery No. 7, The Corpse with the Garnet Face

2018 Shortlisted for the Bony Blithe Award for Best Canadian Light Mystery for The WISE Enquiries Agency Mystery No. 4, The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor

2019 Winner IPPY Bronze Medal (e-book, regional fiction); Finalist in Suspense & Thriller category, International Book Awards for The Wrong Boy.

2021 Shortlisted Crime Fiction Lover Best Indie Book for The Corpse with the Iron Will (Cait Morgan Mystery 10)

2022 Shortlisted Crime Writers of Canada’s Awards of Excellence Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada for The Corpse with the Iron Will (Cait Morgan Mystery 10)

2022 Shortlisted Crime Fiction Lover Best Indie Book for The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes (Cait Morgan Mystery 12)

Books by Cathy Ace

• The Case of the Uninvited Undertaker (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 8)

  

• The Case of the Cursed Cottage (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 7)

  

• The Case of the Disgraced Duke (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 5)

  

• The Case of the Absent Heirs (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 6)

  

• The Corpse with the Turquoise Toes (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 12)

  

• The Corpse with the Granite Heart (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 11)

  

• The Wrong Boy

  

• The Corpse with the Crystal Skull (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 9)

  

• The Corpse with the Iron Will (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 10)

  

• Murder Keeps No Calendar

  

• Murder Knows No Season

  

• The Corpse with the Ruby Lips (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 8)

  

• The Case of the Curious Cook (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 3)

  

• The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 4)

  

• The Corpse with the Sapphire Eyes (the Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 5)

  

• The Case of the Dotty Dowager (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 1)

  

• The Corpse with the Diamond Hand (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 6)

  

• The Case of the Missing Morris Dancer (The WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries Book 2)

  

• The Corpse with the Garnet Face (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 7)

  

• The Corpse with the Silver Tongue (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 1)

  

• The Corpse with the Golden Nose (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 2)

  

• The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 3)

  

• The Corpse with the Platinum Hair (The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 4)

  

• The Case of the Cursed Cottage

  

• The Case of the Disgraced Duke

  

• The Case of the Absent Heirs

  

• The Corpse with the Granite Heart

  

• The Corpse with the Iron Will

  

• The Corpse with the Crystal Skull

  

• The Corpse with the Ruby Lips

  

• The Case of the Curious Cook

  

• The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor

  

• The Corpse with the Sapphire Eyes

  

• The Case of the Dotty Dowager

  

• The Corpse with the Diamond Hand

  

• The Case of the Missing Morris Dancer

  

• The Corpse with the Garnet Face

  

• The Corpse with the Golden Nose

  

• The Corpse with the Emerald Thumb

  

• The Corpse with the Platinum Hair

  

• The Corpse with the Silver Tongue

  

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