Deborah J Ledford is the award-winning author of the Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran suspense thriller series, including Redemption and Havoc, set in Northern New Mexico’s. Part Eastern Band Cherokee, she is an Agatha Award winner, The Hillerman Sky Award Finalist, and two-time Anthony Award Finalist for Best Audiobooks Crescendo and Causing Chaos from her Smoky Mountain Inquest Series. Previously an adjunct professor for Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Deborah is also a guest author interviewer for The Poisoned Pen Bookstore and an Authors on the Air podcast guest host.

Deborah is a member of: International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime International (SinC), and past president of the SinC Desert Sleuths Chapter. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and awesome Ausky.