sentences:  She is currently listed in "Canada's Who's Who" as well as "Lexpert".Blair left law in 2010 to become an award-winning Ottawa realtor and mystery author.Her debut novel, The Beggar's Opera, was rejected 156 times before it was short-listed for a Debut Dagger Award by the UK Crime Writers' Association in 2010 and picked up by Penguin Canada in a two-book deal.