Short-listed for the 1999 Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature and Geoffrey Bilson Award

This is the sequel to Moses, Me and Murder continues the adventures of Ted, now 14. Still tormented by the ghost of murderer James Barry, Ted apprentices to the eccentric doctor J.B. Wilkinson, whose dependency on opium for his patients and for his own demons reveals a past intertwined with the life and death of an enigmatic woman named sophia Cameron.

The Doctor's Apprentice was shortlisted for a B.C. Book Prize and the Geoffrey Bilson Award. All of Ann Walsh's novels have been “Our Choice” selections of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. She lives in Williams Lake, British Columbia.