Helen C. Escott

Helen C. Escott is an award-winning, bestselling Canadian author and playwright. She spent ten years in radio and TV before joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1998 as Senior Communication Strategist. She retired in 2014 and began writing novels full-time.

Described as a prolific writer, she has created ten novels and two plays. Her six-book crime thriller Operation Series has been optioned for TV. The series was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada’s Best First Crime Novel award, won a Silver Medal – Best Regional Fiction at the 24th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 2023 Best Atlantic-Published Book award by the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association (APMA).

Drawing upon her career as a Civilian Member in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, this bestselling, award-winning series takes you on lightning-paced, chillingly current criminal investigations that are surprising at every twist and completely unpredictable right up to their astonishing conclusions.

Helen Escott is a retired Civilian Member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and was the communications lead on high-profile events including the RCMP’s response to the September 11th terrorist attacks.  She wrote and implemented the Atlantic Region Communication Strategies to combat organized crime and outlaw biker gangs. She created a media relations course and taught it throughout Canada as well as at the Canadian Police College, Ottawa. She also served as a communications strategist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

In 2021, she was awarded the Veterans Ombud Commendation Lifetime Contribution Award for her outstanding work with veterans.

Find her online here: https://www.helencescott.com/