Tod Hoffman is the author of Homicide: Life on the Screen and Secret Montreal. He is a Montreal-based freelance writer and critic who has contributed several articles about Homicide to magazines and newspapers. A former investigator for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, he has firsthand knowledge of the mind set of the detective and is in a unique position to judge the realism that Homicide strives so hard to achieve. His writing has appeared in Queen's Quarterly, Montreal Business Magazine, Security Industry, and The Gazette (Montreal).