She Felt No Pain (33 page)

“Hasty as usual, little deer. Watch for predators before you move. The journey has just begun.”

As they looked up, a doe broke from a thicket, crossed the street and bounded off. With a grin spreading over her apple-doll face, Stella nudged her. “You’re on your way.”

Lou Allin was born in Toronto but raised in Ohio. Armed with a Ph.D. in English Renaissance literature, Lou headed north, ending up teaching at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario.

Her first Belle Palmer mystery,
Northern Winters Are
Murder,
was published in 2000, followed by
Blackflies Are
Murder, Bush Poodles Are Murder, Murder Eh?
and
Memories
Are Murder. Blackflies Are Murder
was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award.

Lou has moved from the bush to the beach: the village of Sooke on Vancouver Island, the inspiration for the Holly Martin mysteries, the first of which was
And on the Surface
Die.

Her website is
www.louallin.com