Abigail Padgett

Abigail Padgett grew up in Vincennes, IN, and holds degrees from Indiana University, the University of Missouri and Washington University, St.Louis. She has taught high school English and college courses in Sociology and Creative Writing in San Diego and Boston, directed an ACLU chapter in Houston and worked as an advocate for the mentally ill, plus enduring some truly weird temp jobs. Abbie is the author of multiple highly acclaimed mystery novels that have been translated into five languages, particularly the award-winning Bo Bradley series. CHILD OF SILENCE, the first Bo Bradley mystery,was made into a movie in France. (Which must have been challenging, since the novel's action takes place in the California desert and features Native American Paiute people.) Stand-alone BONE BLIND, is set in the Boston suburb of Newton, where two horror novelists and a detective just months short of retirement investigate a decades-old unsolved murder the spin from which proves even more deadly than the original crime. THE PAPER DOLL MUSEUM, also a mystery, steps over the line into speculative fiction, as does AN UNREMEMBERED GRAVE in which a history professor and a vampire combine skills to solve a hidden Louisiana murder. THE MANDY DRU MYSTERIES are a collection of short stories. Her most recent mystery is STORK BOY, the 6th in the Bo Bradley series. San Diego is home, although Abbie spends much time on the East Coast and in France. She is a dog person happiest in the company of dachshunds, a lapsed vegetarian with heartland food preferences, and a lifelong fan of Poe, Algernon Blackwood and the Graveyard Poets.