Okay, so just who are you, Pat?  I live in the Pacific Northwest and have four great kids with four even greater granddaughters!  For umpteen years, I've been a grant writer, helping a variety of nonprofit organizations and public agencies.  I love gardening and drink Irish breakfast tea-and oh, yes I'm a Pepsi fan.  In fact, I won a short mystery story contest about that recently. 

How did I get started writing mysteries?  By reading them as a kid.  Bet you read Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and Sherlock Holmes, too!  Louise May Alcott is the author who most inspired me to become a writer.  And Ross Macdonald with his Lew Archer series was my model for writing mysteries-though I "don't do PI."

I write mysteries because I like the old-fashioned theme of them: in the end, justice must be served.  Over time, this premise has changed or been ignored, but I like to think it can happen with my characters.  Happy Reading!

My stories/writing on the web - Mystery lovers can go to these sites not only to look at my stories, but also to find excellent mystery ezines and websites.  Take a look at my quickie 55 WORD story "Justice Served" at Bob Foster's NEFARIOUS, Tales of Mystery .  You find several of my stories here.   Take a look at "Deaths on the Cliffs of Moher" or "A Clean View on Murder" as well as others.  I also review mysteries on Cathy's site.