Cathy Ace was born and raised in Swansea, 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 are being developed for television by Free@LastTV (Agatha Raisin). Ace also writes the #1 amazon bestselling WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries, featuring four female PIs (one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish, one English). They tackle quirky, cozy, quintessentially British cases from a converted barn on the grounds of a Welsh stately home in the rolling countryside of the Wye Valley. Her standalone tale of psychological suspense, set in South Wales, The Wrong Boy, also became an international amazon #1 bestseller.

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 for Best Canadian Light Mystery three times, winning once, has been shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence and Crimefictionlover Awards three times, and has won the Crimefictionlover Award for Best Indie Mystery (Editors’ Choice) once; she’s also been shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award  for Best Humourous Mystery and has won IPPY and IBA Awards. Cathy is a Past Chair of Crime Writers of Canada.