DEBORAH J LEDFORD is the Award-Winning author of REDEMPTION and HAVOC, the New Mexico Book Award Finalist for Best Crime Fiction and Multicultural categories, from the Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran suspense thriller series.

Her Smoky Mountain Inquest suspense thriller series, set in North Carolina, includes: CAUSING CHAOS, CRESCENDO, STACCATO, and SNARE, the Hillerman Sky Award Finalist and the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards Finalist.

She is president of IOF Productions Ltd and producer of CAUSING CHAOS and CRESCENDO. Both titles are Anthony Award Nominees for Best Audiobook. As well, Deborah is an Agatha Award Winner, and three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize in the short story category, which are featured in AT THE THRESHOLD.

Part Eastern Band Cherokee, Deborah spent her summers growing up in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, where her Smoky Mountain Inquest novels are set. She lives in Phoenix with her husband and awesome Ausky.

Shannon Baker is author of the Kate Fox Mystery series. Set in rural Nebraska cattle country, according to a starred review in Library Journal, "Baker’s writing evokes the beauty of the Nebraska Sandhills, and her colorful cast of secondary characters adds a depth of charm." Now a resident of Tucson, Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. Shannon is proud to have been chosen Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2014 and 2017 Writer of the Year.

Her stand-alone psychological thriller, The Desert Behind Me, was the 2019 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award winner.

Baker also writes the Nora Abbott mystery series, a fast-paced mix of Hopi Indian mysticism, environmental issues, and murder. The first in the series, Height of Deception, is set in Flagstaff, AZ, where she lived for several years and worked for The Grand Canyon Trust, a hotbed of environmentalists who, usually, don’t resort to murder. It is a 2013 finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards.

A lover of the great outdoors, she can be found backpacking in the Rockies, traipsing to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, skiing mountains and plains, kayaking lakes, hiking, cycling, and diving whenever she gets the chance. Having the desert for a backyard is a daily thrill, bringing javelinas, rattlesnakes, zillions of birds, and spectacular sunsets every day.

Arizona sunsets notwithstanding, Baker is, and always will be, a Nebraska Husker. Go Big Red.

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Wendy Fallon is a professional writer and artist living in Fort Myers Beach, FL, having recently moved from Phoenix, AZ in December 2017. After 5 years of honing her imagination and 22 years in the desert, she published her first 4 murder mysteries in 2018, in her new series: Cali May Mysteries.

After studying Fine Art at the University of CT, and Architecture at Catholic University in Washington, DC, Fallon founded Turtle Creek Designs, which became Fallon Designs in 2007, providing graphic and fine art for web, print, and collectors.

Along the way, Fallon worked for Avnet, Inc. as a graphic designer, and a technical and corporate writer. She currently works for a global software company as an Information Developer.

In 2007, Fallon co-founded and co-managed Art on Boston Gallery with a fellow artist and business partner. The Gallery, located in historic downtown Chandler, AZ, from 2007 to 2010, provided exhibit space, artists' studios and classrooms. Fallon's personal mediums of choice are pencil drawing and water-based painting and through the Gallery she sold artwork to several visiting collectors throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Fallon's short story, ‘Elixir of Death’ is included in the 2017 Desert Sleuths short story Anthology: SoWest: Killer Nights. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Dessert Sleuths Chapter in Phoenix and the national chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Welcome to Desert Sleuths, the Metro-Phoenix Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC), an international organization that welcomes ALL writers from age 18 and up regardless of where you are in your writing journey. SinC promotes the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry and raise professionalism and equity among crime writers. There are more than 60 chapters across the US, Canada, and the UK, totaling more than 4,500 members of all genders.

DS Publishing is the publisher of the Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuth Chapter anthologies, including SoWest: Danger Awaits!; SoWest: Wrong Turn, SoWest: Love Kills, SoWest: Lady Killers, SoWest: Killer Nights, SoWest: So Deadly, SoWest: Crime Time, SoWest: Desert Justice, SoWest: So Wild, How NOT to Survive a Vacation and How NOT to Survive the Holidays.

Authors of these short story collections were SinC Desert Sleuths Chapter members at the time of publication.