Richard BoyerFor thirty years, Richard Boyer taught history at Simon Fraser University, a campus with some resemblance to the fictional setting of Murder 101.

Like his professorial protagonist, Richard's academic research had a forensic bent, focusingon records of the Mexican Inquisition, and what these revealed about the lives of ordinary people.

His Lives of the Bigamists: Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico won The Canadian History Association's Wallace K. Ferguson Prize (1996), for the outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history.

Murder 101 is Richard's debut novel. Read More Read Less