Michelle Spring

Michelle Stanworth (born 1947) is a Canadian sociologist and writer of mystery fiction, who has published both academic work under her own name and mystery fiction under the pen name Michelle Spring. She is most noted for her 2001 novel In the Midnight Hour, which won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel in 2002.

Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Spring spent much of her adult life in Cambridge, England, where she was a professor of sociology at Anglia Ruskin University. She published her debut novel, Every Breath You Take, in 1994, and received an Arthur Ellis Award nomination for Best First Novel in 1995. Nights in White Satin (1999) In the Midnight Hour (2001) The Night Lawyer (2006) The Arvon Book of Crime Writing (2012)