Barbara Fradkin

Barbara Fradkin, née Currie, is a Canadian mystery writer, and a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.

Biography

Fradkin was born in Montreal and obtained her B.A. at McGill University and M.A. at the University of Toronto, before moving to Ottawa to work and raise a family. A few years later she obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa, and has recently scaled back her full-time practice as a child psychologist in order to devote more time to her writing.

She is an active member of Canada's writing community, she is the past president of Crime Writers of Canada as well as contributes to Sisters in Crime and Capital Crime Writers, an Ottawa mystery writers' group.

Her own experience as a graduate student as well as that of her daughter, supplied the backdrop and detail for "Do or Die". Her late husband's experiences in war crimes prosecutions gave her the impetus and background for "Once Upon a Time", while "Mist Walker" and "Fifth Son" draw on her own experiences as a psychologist.

Fradkin is perhaps best know for her Inspector Green series, a police procedural series set in Ottawa. The main character is “the impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, whose passion for justice and love of the hunt often conflicts with family, friends and police protocol." [ [http://www3.sympatico.ca/family.fradkin/green.htm Barbara Fradkin | Author of the Inspector Green Mystery Novels ] ] There are currently six novels in the series.

Bibliography

hort Stories

*“Baby Blues” in "Hard-boiled Love", edited by P. Sellers and K. Schooley. Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2003
*“The Minstrel Boy” in "Bone Dance", edited by S. Pike and J. Boswell. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2003
*“Major Billingham’s Wife” in "Storyteller Magazine", Fall 2003
*"Spoils of War" in "When Boomers Go Bad". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2005
*"Voices from the Deep" in "Dead in the Water," edited by Therese Greenwood and Violette Malan. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2006

Novels in the Inspector Green series

*"Do or Die". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2000.
*"Once Upon a Time". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2002.
*"Mist Walker". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2003.
*"Fifth Son". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2004.
*"Honour Among Men". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2006.
*"Dream Chasers". Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2007.

Awards and nominations

Awards

*Storyteller Magazine’s Great Canadian Short Story Contest, 1998, for “Brandemoor”
*Storyteller Magazine’s Great Canadian Short Story Contest, 2002, for “Timber Town Justice” [ [http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/bfradkin.html Barbara Fradkin ] ]
*2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel for "Fifth Son" [ [http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/pastawards.html Past Arthur Ellis award winners] ]
*2007 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel for "Honour Among Men" [ [http://www.nsknet.or.jp/~jkimura/arthur07.html 2007 Arthur Ellis award winners] ]

Nominations

*Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, 2002, for “Coup de Grace”
*Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, 2002, for “Double Trouble”
*Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, 2003, for "Once Upon a Time"
*Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, 2003, for “ Timber Town Justice” [ [http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/bfradkin.html Barbara Fradkin ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www3.sympatico.ca/family.fradkin/index.htm Author’s website]
* [http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/bfradkin.html Barbara Fradkin’s profile on the Crime Writers of Canada website]
* [http://www.crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/awards.html Arthur Ellis Awards]