Melissa Yi

Melissa Yi is an emergency physician and award-winning author best known for her "Hope Sze" medical mystery series. Drawing from her firsthand experiences working in Canadian hospitals, Yi crafts gripping narratives that explore the complexities of modern healthcare through the eyes of her protagonist, a medical resident navigating the challenges of emergency medicine.

As both a practicing doctor and writer, Yi brings authenticity to her fiction, particularly in depicting the realities of hospital environments across different provinces. Her background working in Ontario and Quebec informs the series' setting and plotlines, with the latter province serving as a particularly rich source of professional challenges that translate compellingly to the page. Yi's dual expertise allows her to blend medical accuracy with suspenseful storytelling.
Hope SZE Medical Mystery Books
# Title Year
1 Code Blues 2011
2 Notorious D.O.C. 2011
3 Terminally Ill 2013
4 Stockholm Syndrome 2015
5 Blood Diamonds 2015
6 Human Remains 2017
7 Death Flight 2018
8 Graveyard Shift 2019
9 Blue Christmas 2019
10 Student Body 2020
11 The Sin Eaters 2020
12 Scorpion Scheme 2020
13 White Lightning 2021
Hope’s Seven Deadly Sins Books
# Title Year
1 The Shapes of Wrath 2023
Animal Whisperer Books
# Title Year
1 High School Hit List: Animal Whisperer 2012
Octavia & Dario Killer School Mystery Books
# Title Year
1 The Italian School for Assassins 2013
2 The Goa Yoga School of Slayers 2014
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 The List 2011
2 Dancing Through the Chaos 2011
3 Wolf Ice 2011
4 Mr. Chef & Ms. Librarian 2013
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Indian Time 2010
2 No Air 2011
3 Because 2015
4 Family Medicine 2015
5 Om 2015
Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem Books
# Title Year
1 Black Widows 2022
2 Cold Cases 2022
Melissa Yi Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Indian Country Noir 2010
2 Sleuth Magazine 2015
3 Montreal Noir 2017