Wayne Arthurson is a Canadian writer from Alberta. He is the author of several novels and several books related to First Nations peoples.[1][2] His parents are of Cree and French Canadian descent. He grew up on an army base.[3][4]
Arthurson's first novel, Final Season, published in 2002, is set in a First Nations community that faces profound environmental change, due to a new hydroelectric project.[5]
Arthurson has two mystery series with the recurring hero Leo Desroches, a metis journalist, who has had his own run-ins with the law.[3][6] Fall from Grace was published in 2011, A Killing Winter was published in 2012, and Blood Red Summer was published in 2015.
His second series starts with Dishonour in Camp 133 is set in a POW camp for captured Germans, in Alberta.[3]
The hero of Arthurson's sixth novel, The Red Chesterfield, published in 2019, is "M", a by-law enforcement officer.[4]