About

Patricia Smiley is the author of the Tucker Sinclair mysteries and the Pacific Homicide series. Her short fiction has been featured in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Two of the Deadliest, an anthology edited by Elizabeth George. A Dark September Night is the first book in her new Justice Bay series, which is set in a small coastal town in Northern California. Patty has taught writing at various writers’ conferences across the U.S. and Canada. She is the former president of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles and a current board member 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 resides in Los Angeles with her loyal and opinionated Siberian Forest cat, along with a backyard feeding station for possums, raccoons, marauding cats, and other critters searching for snacks and a cool sip of water. Despite the distractions, work continues on the second Justice Bay book.