Ritu Mukerji was born in Kolkata, India and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. She received a BA in history from Columbia University and a medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. After residency training at the University of California, Davis, she has practiced as an internist for fifteen years. She lives in Marin County, CA with her husband and three children, and two rescue beagles and two cats. Murder By Degrees is her first novel. To learn more, please visit www.ritumukerji.com
