Jim Napier is the creator of the award-winning website Deadly Diversions, which features over 600 reviews of, and interviews with, leading crime fiction writers around the world. His work can also be found in several Canadian newspapers as well as on such websites as Spinetingler Magazine, The Rap Sheet, January magazine, Reviewing the Evidence, Crime Time, Shots Magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, the Ottawa Review of Books, Opal Writers’ Magazine, Goodreads, and Amazon.com. He has twice been a judge for the Canadian-based Unhanged Arthur Awards, and has also chaired the judging. Jim has also contributed several biographies of contemporary crime writers for the Canadian Encyclopedia, as well as a chapter on writing crime fiction to the Now Write! Mysteries anthology published by Tarcher/Penguin Books. His debut crime novel Legacy was published in 2017, and the second in the series, Ridley’s War, was published in 2020. The third novel. Family Matters, is planned for release in 2022.