Virginia Winters was born in Arnprior Ontario Canada and raised in the Ottawa Valley After high school in Renfrew another Valley town she went down to Queens to study medicine graduating in 1970 Fellowship in Pediatrics followed with graduation in 1976 That year she and her husband Internist George Winters moved to Lindsay Ontario with their two children and have lived there ever since Retired in 2010 she is busy writing sequels to The Jewelled Egg Murders and Painting of Sorrow as well as re editing her first 4 books Her interests in art and genealogy sparked many of her stories. Dangerous Journeys series1 Murderous Roots2 The Facepainter Murders3 No Motive for Murder4 The Child on the Terrace5 The Jewelled Egg Murders6 Virginia Winters was born in Arnprior Ontario Canada and raised in the Ottawa Valley After high school in Renfrew another Valley town she went down to Queens to study medicine graduating in 1970 Fellowship in Pediatrics followed with graduation in 1976 That year she and her husband Internist George Winters moved to Lindsay Ontario with their two children and have lived there ever since Retired in 2010 she is busy writing sequels to The Jewelled Egg Murders and Painting of Sorrow as well as re editing her first 4 books Her interests in art and genealogy sparked many of her stories. Dangerous Journeys series1 Murderous Roots2 The Facepainter Murders3 No Motive for Murder4 The Child on the Terrace5 The Jewelled Egg Murders6 A Superior Crime and other stories7 Painting of Sorrow site_link Before the novel there was the short story told around the campfire or the table to children and myths fables and fairy tales Five of these short stories feature paediatrican and amateur genealogist Anne McPhail Her travels plunge her into murder investigations from Vancouver to Quebec City In other stories some journeys are external and take us to locations from Dubai to England s West Country to rural Ontario and some like The Decision on deeply personal and internal voyages A Superior Crime and other stories Dangerous Journeys 
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