Patricia Smiley

Patricia Smiley is an American author best known for writing the Tucker Sinclair series of novels. The Tucker Sinclair series features Tucker Sinclair, a management consultant who finds herself embroiled in murder mysteries necessitating that she become an amateur sleuth. Her other series of novels is the Pacific Homicide series of novels that is still ongoing. Smiley was born in a Washington, in a small agricultural town where her mother taught her to love books. It was during her childhood that she fell in love with books, particularly mysteries such as the adventures of Trixie Beldon. When she was older, she graduated to the likes of Christie, Chandler, and Hammett, before she went to college majoring in drama and graduating with a Sociology degree. She took two courses because she found sociology practical while the acting was fun. She has also written several short fiction works that have been published on “Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine” and an Elizabeth George edited anthology “Two of the Deadliest”. Besides her mystery writing, she has lectured on writing at various conferences in Canada and the U.S. and has been a ranking member of the Mystery Writers of America Southern California chapter and Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles president. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she writes her novels about her quirky and determined female characters.