About Helen C. Escott

Helen C. Escott is an award-winning, bestselling Canadian author and playwright. She had a ten-year career in radio and TV before joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1998 as Senior Communication Strategist. She retired in 2014 and began writing novels full-time. 

 

Described as a prolific writer, she has created eight novels and one play. Operation Wormwood was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada's Best First Crime Novel award, Operation Vanished won the Silver Medal – Best Regional Fiction at the 24th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards. Operation Masonic was a finalist for the 2023 Best Atlantic-Published Book award by the Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association (APMA).

 

Flanker Press just announced Escott’s five-book Operation Series has been optioned by Rink Rat Productions for film and television.

 

The series is set in Newfoundland and Labrador and follows the careers of Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Sgt. Nicholas Myra and RCMP Corporal Gail McNaughton. This bestselling, award-winning series takes you on lightning-paced, chillingly current criminal investigations that are surprising at every twist and completely unpredictable right up to their astonishing conclusions.

 

In July 2024, Escott and Flanker Press released her eighth novel, We Will Meet Again. This novel honours the women of Newfoundland and Labrador who kept the home fires burning during the Second World War while the province lost a generation of men. We Will Meet Again is the love story of four generations of women and how they healed their past to protect their future. Escott says it touches on everything we hold sacred in this province: Nan, Jesus, and Elvis.

 

Helen Escott is a retired Civilian Member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and was the communications lead on high-profile events including the RCMP’s response to the September 11th terrorist attacks.  She wrote and implemented the Atlantic Region Communication Strategies to combat organized crime and outlaw biker gangs. She created a media relations course and taught it throughout Canada as well as at the Canadian Police College, Ottawa. She also served as a communications strategist at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. 

 

In 2021 she was awarded the Veterans Ombud Commendation Lifetime Contribution Award for her outstanding work with veterans.

 

Awards:

2017 -The CLB Governor and Commandants Medallion in recognition of her achievements of excellence in volunteering and fundraising work.

2019 - Governor General's Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers.

2021 - Veterans Ombud Commendation Lifetime Contribution Award.

2022 - Certificate of Recognition from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to honour her work and dedication to Veterans.