Kathleen LaFrancis Eaton is a Pacific Northwest mystery writer whose writing experience ranges from academic to fiction including textbooks, essays, articles, short stories, blogs and newsletters. She has two mystery/thrillers in progress. Kathleen reads, moderates workshops and teaches a variety of subjects. Her passion is to integrate her experience as a nurse, executive and gardener to into stories for readers that not only entertain, but inspire personal growth and change. As a military brat, a nurse, and an International Strategy Ph.D. she travelled and had many experiences that challenged traditional norms.

As a writer, she realized that only a uniquely experienced forensic nurse could identify and solve the problems in her books. KathleenEaton.net