Biography

Timothy Bickerton spent twenty years in New York as a Vice President of Columbia Artists Management and head of his own agency representing Grammy Award-winning classical artists, producing tours and special events on three continents featuring celebrated artists such as Ricky Martin, Alec Baldwin, and Tim Robbins. He is currently BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre and teaches courses on the business of the arts at Capilano University. 

His debut novel, Budapest Express, is a 71,000-word upmarket mystery that begins when violin virtuoso Danny Kim is carjacked at gunpoint and his prized Stradivarius is stolen.

Danny's mother, Marie, asks her first, long-ago love, gay ex-spy Ronald Sigmundsson, to get it back in time for Danny’s comeback concert, a Resurrection Recital on Easter Sunday at Carnegie Hall, just three weeks away.

But the violin is a forgery, trapping Ronald in the crosshairs of a billion-dollar fraud hiding at the heart of the glittering international concert scene. A secret the String Syndicate will kill to protect. Accused of murder, pursued by Budapest's relentless Inspector Tasnádi and mob assassins, Ronald and John Becker — Danny’s manager — race against time from London to Budapest, Vienna, and New York to recover Danny’s real Stradivarius, clear their names, and bring down the Syndicate.

Bickerton has also written The Art of Touring (Capilano University), a weekly classical music column for the Surrey Leader, jacket copy for mysteries published by St. Martin’s Press, and articles for the Canadian Music Centre and XY Magazine.

Bickerton is a member of the Federation of BC Writers and lives with his husband, Tom, on the shores of the Coast Salish Sea, where he is finishing the next novel in the Ronald Sigmundsson series, Back To Beirut.