As well as being a novelist, John is a many times award-winning writer and composer for stage, film and television, including the phenomenally successful Billy Bishop Goes to War.

He lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is the recipient of many awards, a Golden Globe, the Governor General's Medal, and most recently, the Order of Canada.

A White Stone Day (2005)

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German - Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH CoKG; United Kingdom - Random House UK

The Fiend in Human (2003)
In Gray's highly praised historic thriller, Journalist Edmund Whitty knows how to feed the public's appetite for lurid sensationalism. His latest success is Chokee Bill, "The Fiend in Human Form," a diabolical caricature of the serial strangler who's been attacking "women of low character" in 1852 London, ending their lives with white silk scarves. However, the arrest of coiner William Ryan for these crimes threatens to cool demand for Whitty's work--and thus deprive him of the income he needs for lodging, gin, and opium. So when he's approached by Henry Owler, an impoverished but proud balladeer, who hopes to ring a "last confession" from Ryan before his hanging, Whitty sees the chance again to best his competitors. What he doesn't expect, though, is for the stranglings to continue, raising doubts about Ryan's guilt and leading him--in the interests of his own pocketbook, of course--to turn detective in search of the factual fiend.

This thrilling Dickensian tale offers galvanizing suspense and an evocative and witty vision of life in Victorian London.

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Random House, Canada and UK; St. Martin's Press, US; Heyne, Germany

"A smart social commentary and a ripping good tale, it's clearly the work of a bona fide novelist firmly in control of his craft."
- The National Post

"A wonderfully atmospheric thriller…it is a splendidly dark Victorian world and a novel that is hard to put down."
- Publishing News

A Gift For The Little Master (2000)

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German - Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH CoKG; United Kingdom - Random House UK