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Dr. Ross Pennie
's career as a specialist in infectious diseases has spanned the globe. He is a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and practises at Brantford General Hospital where he takes care of hockey stars and doughnut lovers alike. He first cut his teeth as a doctor volunteering in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, an experience he chronicled in his award-winning memoir,
The Unforgiving Tides
. His first Dr. Zol Szabo mystery,
Tainted
(2009), won the Arts Hamilton Literary Prize for Fiction. Pennie lives in Ancaster, Ontario. Visit his website at rosspennie.ca.

(Author photo: Sherry Smith, Keepsake Photography)