I’m a Texas gal. Except for an eighteen-month hiatus living in New York City after college, I lived in the Lone Star State continuously for fifty years. Since then, Texas has been hit and miss—a little hit, but a heck of a lot of miss. There was a time when I thought I would happily die in Austin, Texas. But circumstances and weather—especially weather—changed that. Now, I spend most of the year on Fidalgo Island in Washington State, with a view of the bay and the mountains. When I get homesick, my husband and I listen to Willie Nelson. Soon, we are dancing the two-step, imagining we are at our favorite honky-tonk in Tokio, Texas, where the mayor is believed to be a dog. Who wouldn’t miss that?

I write the award-winning mystery series: 

the Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series, set in the 1950s,

the Classic Triviography Mystery Series, which includes The Sherlock Holmes Quiz Book, updated and released by Lyons Press on November 1, 2020,

the Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery Series.

On my blog, you can also find my “Growing Up Catholic in a Small Texas Town,” “Five-Minute Writing Tips,” and whatever is running through my mind that day.