Gwendolyn Southin

Gwendolyn Southin was born in the county of Essex, England, and immigrated to Montreal, Quebec when she was in her mid twenties. Retiring to the Sunshine Coast in 1982, she managed a resort and marina with her husband in Pender Harbour before moving to Sechelt where she launched her writing career. Gwen was a founding member of the SunCoast Writers’ Forge, the Festival of the Written Arts, and the Sunshine Coast Writers-in-Residence Program. She co-edited the Festival of the Written Art’s The Great Canadian Cookbook with Betty Keller. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Maturity, Pioneer News, and Sparks from the Forge.

She participated in the Year 2000 International Writers Festival held on Granville Island where she shared the stage with panel members Laurence Gough, Quintin Jardine, Ian Rankin, and Kathy Reichs. She also participated in the 19^th Festival of the Written Arts, which was held in Sechelt August 2001.

Death in a Family Way, In the Shadow of Death and Death on a Short Leash, the latest in the Margaret Spencer mystery series, are all set in the 1950–1960 era. All three books have been published by Touchwood Editions.

“There is something engaging about a middle-aged middle class wife and mother living out the super sleuth fantasy. You somehow know, as she runs barefoot across the cliff tops and plunges into the ocean to elude evil pursuers, that Maggie has got her feet wet and will survive to sleuth again.” – Times Colonist  

 
Selected Bibliography
The Margaret Spencer Mystery Series:
Death in a Family Way. TouchWood Editions, 2008 (first published by Studio 9, 2004)
In the Shadow of Death. TouchWood Editions, 2008 (first published by Studio 9, 2005)

Death on a Short Leash. TouchWood Editions, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

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