C.C. Benison is the pen name of Douglas Whiteway, a journalist and author who lives in Winnipeg, Canada. Benison earned his B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Manitoba and a journalism degree from Carleton University. As a writer, he is known for his mystery novels and has published several series under the pseudonym C.C. Benison.
Benison is the author of the Her Majesty Investigates series, which features Queen Elizabeth II and her household staff solving crimes on the royal estates. He is also the author of the Father Christmas Mysteries series, which features Tom Christmas, an Anglican priest, widower, and single father, who solves crimes in and around the village of Thornford Regis in Devon, England. The first novel in the series, Twelve Drummers Drumming, was published in 2011 and was followed by Eleven Pipers Piping in 2012 and Ten Drummers Drumming in 2013. His most recent work of fiction is The Unpleasantness at the Battle of Thornford, a Father Christmas novella, published in November 2020.
In addition to the above series, Benison has also written two stand-alone novels, Death in Cold Type (2005) and the psychological thriller Paul is Dead: A Novel (2018). He has also written a murder mystery set in Winnipeg, under his real name Douglas Whiteway. Benison won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 1997 for Death at Buckingham Palace.