About Pamela Donison
Pamela Donison, JD, has been a writer in one iteration or other her entire life. These days, she writes books about women, for women, and loves writing mystery, thriller, and literary fiction with a dash of feminine rage. To keep up with what she’s up to next, subscribe (free) to her biweekly Substack, 26 Letters, Rearranged.
Her first novel, Death Comes for Christmas (2022), is a murder mystery set in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the first in the Camelia Belmont Mystery series. The second in the series, Death At The Crossroads (2024), is a legal procedural mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona. Death of the Butcher (2026) is a mystery / thriller set in Valencia, Spain.
Writing in collaboration with Leina Pauls under the pen name Diana Chausseur, she has two novels in progress.
- The Furies: Born of Blood is a modern retelling of the Greek myth, and is a mother-daughter coming-of-age story framed in magic realism. (Ready to query in January 2026.)
- The Accidental Assassin is a fresh take on feminine revenge featuring a fed up, widowed court reporter who’s too young to retire but too old to seek out another job. (Ready to query in June 2026.)
Pamela’s short fiction has been published by The Dillydoun Review, Drunk Monkeys, and the Canada West Anthologies Crime Wave 2: Women of a Certain Age (2022), Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games (2024), and the upcoming Crime Wave 4: Home Sweet Homicide (2026).
She is a former award-winning military journalist (USAF / USAFR, 1980-1992), and was an acquisitions manager for a division of Harcourt Brace. After graduating law school at age 40, Pamela worked in three law firms before opening her own practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Currently a freelance attorney, her work has been published in numerous legal periodicals, as well as chapters in three legal anthologies.
Pamela is the 2024-2025 president of Sisters in Crime Canada West Chapter, and is a member of Crime Writers of Canada, Writers Guild of Alberta, Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, as well as a member in good standing of the State Bar of Arizona.
Pamela and her spouse, Brian, live in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, on the ancestral and traditional Indigenous territories of the Blackfoot and the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III.
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About Pamela Donison
Pamela Donison, JD, has been a writer in one iteration or other her entire life. These days, she writes books about women, for women, and loves writing mystery, thriller, and literary fiction with a dash of feminine rage. To keep up with what she’s up to next, subscribe (free) to her biweekly Substack, 26 Letters, Rearranged.
Her first novel, Death Comes for Christmas (2022), is a murder mystery set in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the first in the Camelia Belmont Mystery series. The second in the series, Death At The Crossroads (2024), is a legal procedural mystery set in Phoenix, Arizona. Death of the Butcher (2026) is a mystery / thriller set in Valencia, Spain.
Writing in collaboration with Leina Pauls under the pen name Diana Chausseur, she has two novels in progress.
- The Furies: Born of Blood is a modern retelling of the Greek myth, and is a mother-daughter coming-of-age story framed in magic realism. (Ready to query in January 2026.)
- The Accidental Assassin is a fresh take on feminine revenge featuring a fed up, widowed court reporter who’s too young to retire but too old to seek out another job. (Ready to query in June 2026.)
Pamela’s short fiction has been published by The Dillydoun Review, Drunk Monkeys, and the Canada West Anthologies Crime Wave 2: Women of a Certain Age (2022), Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games (2024), and the upcoming Crime Wave 4: Home Sweet Homicide (2026).
She is a former award-winning military journalist (USAF / USAFR, 1980-1992), and was an acquisitions manager for a division of Harcourt Brace. After graduating law school at age 40, Pamela worked in three law firms before opening her own practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Currently a freelance attorney, her work has been published in numerous legal periodicals, as well as chapters in three legal anthologies.
Pamela is the 2024-2025 president of Sisters in Crime Canada West Chapter, and is a member of Crime Writers of Canada, Writers Guild of Alberta, Alexandra Writers’ Centre Society, the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, as well as a member in good standing of the State Bar of Arizona.
Pamela and her spouse, Brian, live in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, on the ancestral and traditional Indigenous territories of the Blackfoot and the Metis Nation of Alberta, Region III.