Cathy Ace

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.

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)