James Leck was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1973. At the time, his hobbies included eating, sleeping and pooping his pants. Since then, much has changed.

He has worked as a high school teacher in Canada, Japan, and Kuwait. He has had the good fortune to visit New Zealand, England, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, Guam, Oman, Jordan, France and Prague in the Czech Republic and Egypt.

Three things influenced him to write mysteries: Scooby Doo, Inspector Jacques Clouseau, and Sherlock Holmes. However, his teenage private eye, Jack Lime, is based on the hardboiled detectives of the 1940s and ‘50s.