Vicki Delany

Vicki Delany is an exceptionally prolific and highly celebrated Canadian crime fiction novelist who is widely recognized as one of North America's premier masters of the cozy mystery genre. Born in Manitoba and raised in Ontario, Delany built a formidable technological career working for the Royal Bank of Canada as a computer programmer and systems analyst before executing a full-time retirement pivot in 2007 to dedicate herself entirely to literature. Over a decorated career spanning more than forty published novels and novellas, she has showcased astounding stylistic versatility across standalone Gothic thrillers, her Klondike Gold Rush historical narratives, and her acclaimed Constable Molly Smith police procedurals. Delany dominates modern commercial markets via four concurrently running, fan-favourite cozy mystery series: the Tea by the Sea mysteries, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year-Round Christmas mysteries, and—written under her high-profile national bestselling pen name, Eva Gates—the Lighthouse Library series. A tireless institutional builder, she is a past president of the Crime Writers of Canada, co-founder of the Women Killing It Crime Writing Festival, and the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for her monumental contributions to Canadian crime writing. Moving dynamically through 2025 and into 2026 from her creative studio in bucolic Prince Edward County, Ontario, Delany continues to operate at a relentless publishing pace. Following the mid-2026 releases of her thirteenth Lighthouse Library volume, Whose Body in the Library, and her seventh Tea by the Sea mystery, Bubble, Bubble, Tea & Trouble, she is actively steering global reader communities toward the highly anticipated September 2026 debut of her ninth Year-Round Christmas blockbuster, 'Tis the Season to Be Scary.