David Lorne Harrison is a first-time author, writing as Lorne Kent. David was born and raised in the county of Suffolk, England and emigrated to the Ottawa, Ontario region of Canada in 1980 with his wife, Sandra. His career has been in electronic and software engineering but, now retired, David is focusing his energies on his new passion of writing crime mysteries.

He has been an avid reader of crime mysteries for the last twenty-five years and loves to watch crime TV series. His undying resolve to excel at everything he does and to solve his own mysteries, technical or fictional, has led him to create a fascinating hero character in Detective Inspector Brian Golding of the Ottawa Police Service.

David lives in Ottawa with Sandra, his wife of forty-six years. He is a member of the following writing groups:

• Crime Writers of Canada
• Ottawa Independent Writers
• Capital Crime Writers