Michaela Thompson

Michaela Thompson is a crime, thriller and mystery author from the Northwest Florida Panhandle. Unlike the image of a tropical paradise that most people have of Florida, the area she lived in was nothing of the sort. She remembers living in a land full of moss-hung oaks, salt marshes, barrier islands, and pine forests. This is the backdrop that she uses as a setting for much of the “Florida Panhandle Mystery” series. In time, she also used other locales for her other series including France for the “Georgia Lee Maxwell” series and India, Venice, and the San Francisco Bay for her three free-standing novels. She has also written seven mysteries under the pseudonym Mickey Friedman before she decided to use her original name. Michaela has said that she decided to use her birth given name since most people tended to believe that Mickey was a man. Other than writing mysteries, she has also been a columnist and reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco, a college editor, and a freelance journalist and writer. Still, the Florida Panhandle remains a significant part of her life as she now has a summer home on the beach in Florida and visits with her husband whenever she can. She spends much of her time with her husband in New York.