Terry Shames writes the best-selling Samuel Craddock mystery series, set in the fictitious town of Jarrett Creek, Texas. Her first novel, A Killing at Cotton Hill (July 2013) was a finalist for the Left Coast Crime award for best mystery of 2013 and the Strand Magazine Critics Award, and won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel of 2013. MysteryPeople named it one of the five top debut mysteries of 2013. The Last Death of Jack Harbin (January 2013) was named one of the top ten mysteries of 2013 by MysteryPeople. Her fifth novel, The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake (January, 2016) was an RT Reviews Top Pick for January. Terry lives in Berkeley, California. She attended the Community of Writers in 1998. www.Terryshames.com