About Deryn Collier

Deryn Collier has dreamed of writing mystery novels since reading her first Nancy Drew in the second grade.

Her most recent work, A Real Somebody, is a novel of gentle suspense set in Montreal in 1947. She has written two previous novels, Confined Space, which was nominated for a Best First Novel award by the Crime Writers of Canada, and Open Secret. 

Deryn moved to Montreal as a teenager and instantly fell in love with the city, later graduating from McGill University.

These days she lives in a small town in the mountains of British Columbia with her family and though she has lived there for many years, she still considers Montreal to be home. 

Deryn enjoys gardening, sewing and swimming year-round in a glacier-fed lake, and sometimes over-shares about these hobbies on Instagram.

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