Lois Breedlove
Washington state
L.J. Breedlove says if you sliced her open -- and she'd prefer you didn't -- you'd find curiosity pumping through her body. "It drives me," she says. "I never met a question I didn't like." Courious about places, about things, but most of all about people, Ms. Breedlove has always told stories to explain things. "That's what story tellers do -- explain ourselves to ourselves, " she says, dating back to the paintings on Cave walls in France -- something she walked ten miles to see once, because she was... curious.
Her first mystery Everybody Lies is a story set in Alaska, a place she lived and still loves. Her most recent book, Trust No One, features a reporter in Seattle. When someone tries to kill him, he doesn't know why or who. But he plans to find out -- and then they will pay.
She currently lives on seven acres at the end of the road where she raises puppies, gardens obsessively and plots the second installment of Paul Kitka and Dace Marshall in Somebody's Secrets.