From the Crime Writers of Canada, of which he is a member and, more recently, a director.

Jake Doherty came to crime writing after 40 years in journalism, not as a planned venture, but more like a great plot that unfolds with its own inner force. After one novel, a second now in the hands of an editor and six short stories, he's most comfortable and prolific with the redemptive challenges of older men. "This I know and the theme provides the great range to explore character development and the thin line between good and evil" he says.

His first book - "The Rankin Files" published in 2002 by Ginger Press of Owen Sound, introduced Fergus Fitzgerald, the Boston-born draft dodger who came to Canada in the 70's and became a curmudgonally recluse on the Bruce Peninsula after his Newfoundland wife died suddenly of cancer. His counter part is Dr. Mary Fraser, an Ojibwa university professor. Prickly at times, they re-emerge in "Finding Fergus" where he becomes an amateur sleuth to help Mary beat a murder rap when a young German drug dealer is murdered on Manitoulin Island.

He's quite vain about using his newspaper publishing background to co-found the Osprey Summer Mystery Series. The series finished its sixth season, and is now preparing for the seventh which now sponsored by SunMedia. The 3000-word pieces are carried in all Osprey and SunMedia papers with a combined readership approaching one million. "Therese Greenwood and I created an awesome new market for Canadian crime writing."

Jake's short stories for the series include:

"Rough Waters" 2003 ; "The Stonewall Sarcophagus" 2004, "The Last Ditch" 2005, "Last Bus from Barrie" 2006, Nine Holes in the Ceiling 2007 and Not a Duck 2007

Jake and Therese also combined to edit an anthologoy from the series - "Mystery Ink",published Ginger Press in 2007 to rave reviews. The Globe's Margaret Cannon said M! was the" perfect little book for summer reading" A second anthology is in the works.

Though born in New Brunswick, he now lives in Meaford near Owen Sound and spends considerable time sitting on his deck, drinking white wine -- or a good single malt -- and watching the sun go down on Georgian Bay. Most mornings though are spent in his basement office writing and taking his direction from P.D. James's "...perennial fascination with the mystery of mortality...rights vindicated, order restores."