An award-winning national newspaper columnist, Lorraine Sommerfeld has been writing Motherlode for twenty years for the Hamilton Spectator and has been an automotive journalist for eighteen, currently with Driving.ca Whether she’s driving exotic cars in crazy places or telling you stories about her kids or her cats, her work is always about the people. With the release of her debut thriller novel in the summer of 2023, A Face in the Window, it’s now about scaring them, too. She began writing at 40. Before that, she got fired a lot.