Deborah (Deb) Brod has written fiction most of her life, but didn't think she had a novel in her until after she graduated from Northern Illinois University with an M.A. in journalism. It was then that she decided if she could spend 120 pages discussing postal oppression of the radical press, she could write a novel. She was right. Her first novel, Murder In Store, featuring private detective Quint McCauley, appeared two years later in 1989. Four more novels in the series followed. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and several anthologies.