For 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, focusing on 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.
