Caroline Roe
Caroline Medora Sale Roe is a Canadian novelist who has written detective novels as Medora Sale and historical mystery novels as Caroline Roe.
Caroline Medora Sale was born in Windsor, Ontario. She received a BA from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Medieval Studies from the same university. Her PhD research involved religious diversity in the Medieval Era. Before becoming a full-time writer, she taught at Branksome Hall and also worked in advertising and as a typist, translator, and caseworker. She married the medievalist Harry Roe in 1970; they had one daughter, Anne.
Her books as Medora Sale are The Spider Bites, Murder on the Run, Murder in Focus, Murder in a Good Cause, Sleep of the Innocent, Pursued by Shadows, and A Short Cut to Santa Fe. They are police procedural novels set around Toronto and featuring the characters of John Sanders, a homicide detective, and Harriet Jeffries, an architectural photographer.
Her books as Caroline Roe are Remedy for Treason, Cure for a Charlatan, An Antidote for Avarice, Solace for a Sinner, A Potion for a Widow, A Draught for a Dead Man, A Poultice for a Healer, and Consolation for an Exile. These historical mystery novels draw upon Roe's PhD research, and feature a 14th-century Jewish doctor who is physician to the Bishop of Girona.
Roe has been a president of Crime Writers of Canada and of the international board of Sisters in Crime. Roe won the Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel in 1985, and a Barry Award in 1999.
