DEBORAH ADAMS is an award-winning poet and short-story writer who is actively involved with Sisters in Crime, the Appalachian Writers' Association, and other writers' organizations. She has written three previous mysteries set in Jesus Creek, Tennessee: the Great Pretenders (an Agatha Award nominee best first novel), All the Crazy Winters, and All the Dark Disguises. She lives in Waverly, Tennessee.
Kate Fansler abandons her academic pursuits to investigate the disappearance of Winifred Ashby--the honorary niece of noted British novelist Charlotte Stanton--who vanishes after agreeing to cooperate with a would-be biographer of her "aunt."--Fantasticfiction.co.uk.