Shane Peacock was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, one of four brothers. He attended school in the northern town of Kapuskasing, before studying history and English literature at university. A biographer, journalist, and screenwriter, he is also the author of six novels and three plays, and he has been nominated for numerous awards including several National Magazine Awards and the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction. When not writing, Shane Peacock enjoys playing hockey and making up characters that chase his three children around the house. Death in the Air is the second book in his popular The Boy Sherlock Holmes series. Eye of the Crow, also published by Tundra Books, was the first. Shane Peacock lives near Cobourg, Ontario.
Praise for Death in the Air:
“Peacock continues his literary derring-do in the second Sherlock
Holmes novel, Death in the Air, as suspenseful and riveting as the
first book….The crafty turns and twists of this mystery adventure
only intensify from the sensational opening, so that you can’t turn
the pages fast enough….Peacock’s writing, smart, lithe, and
assured, is perfectly attuned to readers in its accessibility and
appeal…” —The Ottawa Citizen
Praise for Eye of the Crow
“a thrilling, impeccably paced murder mystery.”
— Quill and Quire, Starred Review
Praise for Death in the Air:
"Peacock continues his literary derring-do in the second Sherlock
Holmes novel, Death in the Air, as suspenseful and riveting
as the first book....The crafty turns and twists of this mystery
adventure only intensify from the sensational opening, so that you
can't turn the pages fast enough....Peacock's writing, smart,
lithe, and assured, is perfectly attuned to readers in its
accessibility and appeal..." -The Ottawa Citizen
Praise for Eye of the Crow
"a thrilling, impeccably paced murder mystery."
- Quill and Quire, Starred Review
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