Melissa Yi discusses her story, Dead Man's Hand, which has been shortlisted for The Crime Writers Canada's Awards of Excellence, Best Short Crime Story.
About the Author
Melissa Yi could slice your throat and sew it back up again. Legally. Because she’s an emergency doctor.
In her spare minutes, Melissa writes the Hope Sze medical crime series, which Ellery Queen praised for its “nitty-gritty” description and Publishers Weekly for its “darker themes … entertaining and insightful.” Kirkus considers Hope Sze a “modern heroine,” the CBC calls her a “must-read,” and The Globe and Mail praises her as a “standout,” having written a best Canadian suspense novel.
Melissa’s mystery stories were finalists for the Arthur Ellis Award (best crime story in Canada) and the Derringer Award (best crime story in the English language) and longlisted for the Staunch Prize (best feminist thriller worldwide).
But that’s not all! Because all ER doctors have some form of ADHD (joking. Sort of), Melissa also writes romance and YA. Under the name Melissa Yuan-Innes, she writes the Unfeeling Doctor memoir series as well as fantasy and science fiction for which she won a Writers of the Future Award.