Cathy Ace

Cathy Ace was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, and 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 – traditional whodunits featuring a globetrotting Welsh Canadian professor of criminal psychology. Eve Myles will portray Cait in the TV production 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, cosy cases from a Welsh stately home in the rolling countryside of the Wye Valley. Her tale of psychological suspense, The Wrong Boy, also became an amazon #1 bestseller, and is slated to become a bilingual TV mini-series.

Cathy lives on five rural acres in British Columbia, where she works full-time as an author, and also enjoys her other great passion – gardening. She’s been shortlisted for the prestigious Canadian Bony Blithe Award three times, winning once, has won IPPY and IBA Awards, the CrimeFictionLover Editor’s Award for Best Indie Novel, and has been twice shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards.

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)

2024 Winner Crime Fiction Lover Best Indie Book (Editors’ Choice) for The Corpse with the Pearly Smile (Cait Morgan Mystery 14)