Deb Richardson-Moore has worked as an award-winning newspaper journalist and as pastor to homeless congregants. Her murder mysteries fall somewhere between cozies and gritty psychological thrillers and have twice been named finalists in Killer Nashville competitions.

Deb and her husband live in upstate South Carolina, where she enjoys gardening, volunteering, public speaking and watching TV thrillers adapted from favorite books. She travels frequently to the beach and to visit their three adult children, who are spread from South Carolina to southern California to Southeast Asia.