Barbara Fradkin was born in Montreal and educated at McGill University, the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa. Her work as a child psychologist provides plenty of insight and inspiration for her fiction.

Barbara’s short fiction has been published in many short story magazine and anthologies. She has published six Inspector Green mysteries with RendezVous Crime, Do or Die (2000), Once Upon a Time (2002), Mist Walker (2003), Fifth Son (2004), Honour Among Men (2006) and Dream Chasers(2007). Fifth Son and Honour Among Men both won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, Canada’s top crime writing prize.

Barbara lives in Ottawa, Ontario.