Autor/-in: L R Wright

L. R. Wright. ("Bunny" to her family and friends) was best known for her celebrated mystery series set in a little town on Western Canada's Sunshine Coast, featuring Karl Alberg of the Canadian police. In 1986 the first book in the series, The Suspect. , won the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year, making Wright the first Canadian to be so honored. Two other books in the series-A Chill Rain in January. and Mother Love. -won Arthur Ellis Awards (now the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence). Wright died in 2001, and in 2024 the Alberg series was adapted for television as Murder In a Small Town.