About

Patricia Smiley is the author of the Tucker Sinclair mysteries and the Pacific Homicide series. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and in Two of the Deadliest, an anthology edited by Elizabeth George. A Dark September Night is the first book in her new Justice Bay series, followed by A Cold November Murder. Both are set in a small coastal town in Northern California. Patty has taught writing at writers’ conferences across the U.S. and Canada. She is the former president of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles and the current vice president of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America.

Patty earned a BA from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She lives in Los Angeles with her loyal, opinionated Siberian Forest cat and a backyard feeding station for possums, raccoons, marauding cats, and other critters seeking snacks and a cool sip of water.