Nora Kelly (born August 29, 1945) is an American-born Canadian writer who mainly writes mystery fiction.
Kelly lived in New York City, London, Cambridge and Nairobi before settling in Vancouver.
[3] She received the Arthur Ellis Award in 1999 for her novel Old Wounds,[4] featuring academic sleuth Gillian Adams who also appears in other mystery novels by Kelly.
She also published Quest for a Profession: The History of the Vancouver General Hospital School of Nursing in 1973.
She has also been an associate producer for the opera company and has written a libretto.