Welcome to the website of Elizabeth J. Duncan, author of the Penny Brannigan mystery series, set in North Wales.

Elizabeth’s first novel, The Cold Light of Mourning, has won both the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant (2006) for unpublished writers and the St. Martin’s Press/Malice (2008) award for best first novel.

Elizabeth is the first author to win both awards, and the first Canadian to win either.

The Cold Light of Mourning has just been nominated for an Agatha Award for best first traditional mystery. The winner will be announced Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Her second novel, A Brush with Death, will be published in July, 2010.