An Agatha and Macavity nominee, Deborah Crombie received international acclaim for her first four mysteries, A Share in Death, All Shall Be Well, Leave the Grave Green, and Mourn Not Your Dead, which are being published in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and Japan. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, and later lived in Edinburgh and in Chester, England. She travels to Great Britain yearly to research her books and recently lectured at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She now lives in a small north Texas town with her husband, daughter, cocker spaniel, and four cats, and is at work on the sixth book in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series.