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Patricia Brine has written a series of six mysteries:
Agitato Allegro, Baffling Bagatelles, Cadenza Castle, Deadly Dissonance, Enigmatic
Ensemble and Fatal Fugue, all featuring Molly O’Connor. She has written
two nonfiction books: MS Is Not the End of the World, and with her son, Two-Stepping in a Waltz World: Asperger’s Syndrome, and the
sequel The Only Dance I Know.
Patricia was born and raised in Peace River, Alberta. She received her
B.Ed. and M.Ed. from the University of Alberta and lives in Edmonton. She has read and collected mystery books most of her life and
particularly enjoys those from which she learns something about a place or a different way of life from her own. The mysteries Patricia writes reflect her experiences and interest in schools and music and often
include things she has learned from her frequent travels.
Patricia played string bass with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for eight
years and was their librarian for three years. She taught bass at the University of Alberta as a sessional instructor. During her
thirty-five-year teaching career with Edmonton Public Schools, she set up the string instrument classes, directed orchestras, bands and choirs, taught music to students from kindergarten to Grade 12 and for seven years was
a librarian in an inner city school.
When she was fifty-six, Patricia’s multiple sclerosis went into an active, debilitating phase, so she took early retirement. The MS may
have been frightened off when she began writing her mystery novels as it went into remission while she was concentrating her energies on
developing her writing.
As an amateur musician, Patricia now plays mostly viola with two orchestras and sings with a choir that performs large-scale works with
orchestral accompaniment. When not at rehearsals or practicing, Patricia spends her time reading, writing, going to concerts,
entertaining, swimming, traveling, and occasionally babysitting her grandchildren.
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Patricia Brine 
