Peter Smith was a newspaper crime reporter for 37 years in England and Canada, where he turned up at hundreds of crime scenes and worked closely with homicide detectives and pathologists. As the crime reporter for the Calgary Sun, Alberta, Canada, he won awards for covering the Columbine School massacre in Littleton, Colorado, and was sent back to England to cover the case of a doctor who murdered 216 patients. He has written two true-crime murder books featuring Canadian cases he covered. Now retired, he lives on a remote tiny island off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.