Abuse investigation has been a part of Beverley Bateman’s adult life. Her career in public health nursing brought her into daily contact with challenging families and gave her an up-close view into the lives of families from all social levels and occupations; including drug dealers, hookers and abusers. This look into different and varied aspects of life provided Beverley with a wealth of knowledge for her to draw on to enhance her writing skills, as she develops emotional situations and realistic characters facing emotional and life-threatening challenges.
Beverley admits to being an avid reader of mystery and romantic suspense, which began early in life with Nancy Drew. She also confesses to spending a lot of time dreaming up locked room plots and conversations between fictional characters. After years of writing down scraps of plots and promising to write the whole story one day, Beverley finally decided it was time she succumbed to her long time desire to write. Purchasing her very first computer and struggling with computer illiteracy, she finally put her fingers to the keyboard and wrote her first novel, creating the characters she had been talking to for years. When a request for medical thrillers caught her eye, she decided to use her medical background and some research to come up with a book about cloning. The result is Just Like You.
When not working out the twisted details for her latest plot, Beverley reads voraciously, and loves to travel, hike and cross country ski in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, among the vineyards, beaches and mountains.

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