CHRIS (C.C.) HUMPHREYS is a bestselling author, an actor and a swordsman. He was born in Toronto and grew up in the UK, and has acted on stages all over the world in roles ranging from Hamlet to Jack Absolute to Clive Parnell on Coronation Street. His books have been published in more than ten languages and have won numerous awards, including, most recently, the 2015 Arthur Ellis Prize for Best Novel (Plague), the 2007 Evergreen Prize by the Ontario Library Association (The Jack Absolute series) and the runner-up prize for the 2002 CWA Steel Dagger for Thrillers (The French Executioner). He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. You can visit him at www.authorchrishumphreys.com.
