Jacques Côté

Jacques Côté lives in Quebec City and teaches literature at Cégep de Sainte-Foy. In the 1980s he lived in London, where he wrote his first novel, Les Montagnes russes (1988), which was adapted for television and reprinted in 1999. In 2000, he published his first crime novel : Nébulosité croissante en fin de journée, followed by Le Rouge idéal (2002), the second part of the series, for which he received the 2003 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. His interest in forensic science led him to write Wilfrid Derome, expert en homicides (2003). Winner of the Grand Prix La Presse for best biography, a book that increased public awareness of this North American pioneer in law and forensic medicine. Jacques Côté has been a guest lecturer at L'École de criminologie de Montréal, and at the Société médicale de Québec, as well as the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale, and also at many schools and libraries throughout Quebec. In 2004, he worked on a documentary about the life of Wilfrid Derome for the cable network Canal D.

Les Montagnes russes. Novel. Montréal : VLB, 1988.
Les Tours de Londres. Novel. Montréal : VLB, 1991.
Les Amitiés inachevées. Novel. Montréal : Québec Amérique, (coll. Littérature d'Amérique), 1994.
Nébulosité croissante en fin de journée. Novel. Beauport : Alire, (Romans 034), 2000.
Le Rouge idéal. Novel. Lévis : Alire, (Romans 063), 2002.
Wilfrid Derome, expert en homicides. Biography. Montréal : Boréal, 2003.
La Rive noire. Novel. Lévis : Alire, (Romans 092), 2005.
Le Chemin des brumes. Novel. Lévis : Alire, (Romans 113). 2008.