Barbara Fradkin, née Currie, is a Canadian mystery writer, and a two-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, (formerly known as the Arthur Ellis Awards) for Best Novel.
at the University of Toronto, before moving to Ottawa to work and raise a family.
A few years later she obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa, and has recently scaled back her full-time practice as a child psychologist in order to devote more time to her writing.
Her own experience as a graduate student as well as that of her daughter, supplied the backdrop and detail for Do or Die.
The main character is "the impetuous, exasperating Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, whose passion for justice and love of the hunt often conflicts with family, friends and police protocol.