Nicole Lundrigan is a Canadian thriller writer. She has been nominated for the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Novel twice.

Career

While home with her newborn daughter, Lundrigan began writing articles and then decided to try writing a novel.

Personal life

Nicole Lundrigan was born to parents Nancy and

John Lundrigan John Howard Lundrigan (January 10, 1939 – March 5, 2009) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Gander—Twillingate in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1974. He was a member of the Progressive ...

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. Her family moved back to Newfoundland when she was two and a half and grew up in Upper Gullies, Newfoundland. She attended Queen Elizabeth Regional High School in Foxtrap, Newfoundland, and later went on to receive a BSc from the

University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English language, English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universiti ...

, as well as a BA in anthropology from Saint Mary's University. She then moved to Ontario in 1996 to complete an MSc from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

. She gave birth to a daughter after finishing her master's and decided not to pursue a PhD.

Books

* ''Unraveling Arva'' (Jesperson, 2003) * ''Thaw'' (Jesperson, 2005) * ''The Seary Line'' (2008) * ''Glass Boys'' (2011) * ''The Widow Tree'' (2013) * ''The Substitute'' (2017) * ''Hideaway'' (2019) * ''An Unthinkable Thing'' (2022) * ''A Man Downstairs'' (2024)

Awards and nominations

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lundrigan, Nicole Living people Date of birth missing (living people) People from Conception Bay South University of New Brunswick alumni Saint Mary's University (Halifax) alumni University of Toronto alumni 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian women novelists Canadian thriller writers Canadian crime fiction writers