Website Leslie Wiens is a Canadian author, having started his writing career just prior to becoming a septuagenarian. He spent 10 years in the computer industry, owned art galleries for over a decade (split into two five-year ventures), and had various short-term jobs such as retail blue-jean store manager, travelling wholesale spice sales rep, and window washer. He then spent 30 years in the financial world as a financial planner. Having taken Creative Writing at the University of Winnipeg, he started writing in the early 1990s, but shelved the activity while managing his financial-planning business. He lives a peripatetic life, with time in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Northern Ontario, and world travelling.
Publications
A Natural Cause
A Natural Cause
Away from family and friends for the first time after moving to Vancouver to attend university, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth (Liz) Grant finds campus and dorm life lonely. She is thrilled when the handsome, charismatic Professor Gilby offers her and Caroline, another student, a summer job doing door-to-door surveys to collect data for his research on elderly people who live alone and their access to medical care. Before long, Liz is using cocaine and embroiled in steamy and complicated sexual relationships with both Gilby and Caroline—who may or may not also be involved with each other.
Years later, while leading a quiet life as a civil servant working with archival material, Liz (who now calls herself Beth), makes a shocking discovery about the real purpose of the data she was innocently collecting all those years ago and that money—big money—was involved. After turning her findings over to the local RCMP detachment, she finds herself drawn into a complex web of crime and police sleuthing she could never have imagined. She also learns that her relationship with Gilby and Caroline was not quite what it seemed. Or was it exactly what it seemed?
