Bradshaw, Mel

Victorian Canada provides the setting for Mel Bradshaw's first crime novel. Death in the Age of Steam was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award and won the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Mystery category. His second historical mystery, Quarrel with the Foe, leaps ahead 70 years to the Roaring Twenties—while Victim Impact is a contemporary crime novel featuring biker gangs and courtroom drama in the Golden Horseshoe. Various journals have published Mel's short stories. He has also written on military history for The Canadian Forum. 

Mel was born and grew up in Toronto, where he took his B.A. and was film editor of The Varsity. He holds a post-graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University. A former English teacher, Mel now writes full-time.

Selected Bibliography

Crime novels:

Quarrel with the Foe. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2005

Death in the Age of Steam. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2004

Victim Impact. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2008

Short crime fiction:
“Horse and Snake” in Descant 53, Summer 1986
“The Nuremberg Code” in Queen's Quarterly 93/4, Winter 1986
“Weevil Mind” in Queen's Quarterly 96/2, Summer 1989

More about Mel's Novels:

	Victim Impact When criminologist Ted Boudreau’s academic interest in biker gangs brings tragedy into his home, a penal progressive must confront his inner vigilante. More victims will fall. Can all receive justice?
	Quarrel with the Foe Industrialist Digby Watt is gunned down on the streets of Prohibition-era Toronto. What got him killed—his Temperance speeches, a possible remarriage, or his activities during the Great War?
	Death in the Age of Steam Isaac never managed to forget Theresa, despite her marriage to another man. Now her father's dead, Theresa has disappeared—and only Isaac is asking questions.

Mel Bradshaw's photo by Brett Newsome