Sheilla Jones is an award-winning Canadian journalist with an advanced degree in theoretical physics.
It’s no surprise, then, that her literary interests lie in popular science and Canadian politics. Or that investigative journalism should lead to plotting murder mysteries.
Read Sheilla's latest book reviews:
New: The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World — and Could Destroy It, by Alanna Mitchell, Winnipeg Free Press, March 3, 2018
New: Real Quanta: Simplifying Quantum Physics for Einstein and Bohr, by Martijn van Calmthout, February 15, 2018
Recent: Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us, by Sam Kean, Winnipeg Free Press, August 5, 2017
Recent: Trudeaumania, by Paul Litt, and Trudeaumania: The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, by Robert Wright, Winnipeg Free Press, November 26, 2016
Recent: Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly, Winnipeg Free Press, September 24, 2016
Do we live in one of an infinite number of universes? Quantum mechanics seems to say that we do, but it’s not an easy to get a handle on a such a big idea. Sheilla Jones gives it a shot, along with cosmologists Dwight Vincent, Max Tegmark, David Deutsch and Bryce DeWitt. Run time: 55 min.
Creating a mystery series
By Sheilla Jones
The idea for the “Blood & Fire” murder mystery series was born of a collision of ideas: my on-going search for a mystery premise that is new and fresh, and husband Jim’s discovery that his great-great grandmother was the first matron of the Salvation Army’s Rescue Home for fallen women in 1896 Helena, Montana. It was the proverbial “aha!” moment. What better place for a strong female “detective” than managing a house full of prostitutes, drunks and outlaws... Read more
Did you know that the Salvation Army had its own international detective agency? Learn more about Mrs. Booth's Bureau of Enquiry, opening in 1885 in Hackney, London.
Much of what people know about the colourful history of the Salvation Army is shaped by George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play Major Barbara and the 1941 movie based on that play, or by the 1983 British television sit-com Hallelujah! starring the inimitable Thora Hird. But there is so much more.
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Alexander Unzicker & Sheilla Jones
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013
Sheilla Jones
Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto, 2008
Oxford University Press, New York, 2008
Sheila Jones Morrison
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