Skywatcher

Robin Harris grew up watching the sixties show Spy Squad, starring his dad, Evan Harris. So when the police deem the mysterious death of a Russian woman with rainbow-colored hair a suicide, Robin knows better.Robin soon finds himself in the middle of an awesome plot that seems to be lifted directly from one of his father's old episodes, and, as he discovers, his father really was a spy. Now Robin and his brothers have inadvertently walked onto the scene of a real life-and-death spy drama, and as far as the free world is concerned, Robin's entrance into the family business comes not a moment too soon. Winona Kent was born in London, England. She immigrated to Canada with her parents at age three, and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, where she received her BA in English from the University of Regina. After settling in Vancouver, she graduated from UBC with an MFA in Creative Writing. More recently, she received her diploma in Writing for Screen and TV from Vancouver Film School.Winona has been a temporary secretary, a travel agent, the Managing Editor of a literary magazine and a Program Assistant at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her writing breakthrough came many years ago when she won First Prize in the Flare Magazine Fiction Contest with her short story about an all-night radio newsman, Tower of Power. More short stories followed, and then novels: Skywatcher, The Cilla Rose Affair, Cold Play, Persistence of Memory, In Loving Memory, and Marianne's Memory. Winona began her Jason Davey Mystery series in 2017 with the novella, Disturbing the Peace. Two further novels followed: Notes on a Missing G-String and Lost Time. Ticket to Ride is the fourth book in Jason Davey series.Winona lives in New Westminster, British Columbia where she is the BC/YK/NWT Representative for the Crime Writers of Canada as well as an active member of Sisters in Crime.