A recipient of the Arthur Ellis Award for Crime Fiction and the 2005 Matt Cohen Award, Howard Engel has published twelve Benny Cooperman mysteries. His books have been turned into numerous television movies and radio dramas, several starring Saul Rubinek as Benny Cooperman. Co-founder of the Crime Writers of Canada, in 2000 Engel suffered an overnight stroke that left him with alexia sine agraphia, a rare brain condition. The print edition of the novel includes an afterword by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks.
