Lee Mellor is an author, musician, and doctoral student currently based out of Montreal. His books, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder (2012) and Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing (2013) focus on the under-explored topic of multicide in Canada. Both are available in the True Crime section of most Canadian bookstores, and in hard copy and e-book form through www.amazon.com (USA), www.amazon.ca (Canada), and www.amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom).Until his career as an author took off, Lee devoted a great deal of time to writing, performing, and recording storytelling music. He was voted among the Top Ten Singer-Songwriters in Montreal three years in a row, and in 2008 ranked #3 next to Leonard Cohen and Rufus Wainwright. His first album Ghost Town Heart (2007) was considered one of the best "country" albums of the year by numerous indie publications and reviewers, and is notable for the songs "Liberty Street" and "Nowhere, Manitoba." In 2011, he recorded ten more tracks for his second album Lose - with the title track and "Suzy Blue Eyes" being two of his more popular tunes.He is the co-founder of Grinning Man Press, and is a contributor to and editor-in-chief of the e-magazine Serial Killer Quarterly.