Ghosts of the Past

Matthew LeDrew has written over twenty novels, some of which have gone on to become Canadian and international bestsellers. They include: the ten book Coral Beach Casefiles series, The Long Road, Cinders, Sinister Intent, Faith, Family Values, Fate’s Shadow, First Aid, Moments, Jacobi Street, Touch Your Nose, The Sacking of Outpost Toth, The Four Funerals of Marcus Drumford, Infinity, The Tourniquet Reprisal, Exodus of Angels, Garden of the Eighth Circle, Rats of Refraction, and Gone, the latter six of which with wife and co-author Ellen Curtis. 

Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing. He currently holds a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and an ArtsNL Professional Projects Grant.

He holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology. He studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubadour.

He has been called “the face of Newfoundland Genre writing” and is one of the most successful authors working and living in his province today.

He lives in Chapel Arm, Newfoundland.