Peggy Blair

Peggy Blair has been a lawyer for more than thirty years. A recognized expert in Aboriginal law, she also worked as both a criminal defence lawyer and Crown prosecutor. She spent a Christmas in Old Havana, where she watched the bored young policemen along the Malecón, visited Hemingway's favourite bars, and learned to make a perfect mojito. She lives in Ottawa.

• "I have a penchant for smart, dark literary crime fiction, and The Beggar's Opera is all of that: an excellent book."

  —Allan Guthrie, author of Two Way Split