Papoutsis, C.J.

C.J. Papoutsis worked for the BC Provincial Government for 35 years—15 as a legal secretary in the Ministry of Attorney General, where she got her taste for crime. A closet writer for most of her life, she was liberated from the public service in 2003 and took up writing short stories. “Mother Always Kept a Gun,” her first published crime story, was included in the Christmas mystery anthology, Blood on the Holly (Baskerville Books, 2007).

C.J. and her long-suffering husband live in Victoria, BC, where she imagines crime everywhere and fishes for red herrings in Oak Bay.