Our “Tainted” book launch celebration on Wednesday April 15 at the Ancaster Old Town Hall was a great success. The venue is charming in an olde worlde sort of way, with a clock tower, limestone walls, and high cove ceilings. The party was a team effort, masterminded and mostly executed by my wife Lorna. She [...]

This is the first day for my website. I’ll be posting blogs from time to time, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy reading Tainted, the debut mystery for  Zol Szabo and Hamish Wakefield.

Soon after assuming his new post as an infectious disease specialist at Brantford General Hospital in 2003, Dr. Ross Pennie learned of two local cases of a deadly and particularly frightful brain disease. The cases “gripped me with terror,” Pennie said. He and his colleagues were awash in an “emotional chill” until it was learned that the two cases were naturally occurring forms of the disease and not a brewing public health nightmare.