Susan Alice Bickford’s debut novel, A Short Time to Die (Kensington, 2017) was a Left Coast Crime Debut Author Nominee, and Dread of Winter (Kensington, 2019) was an Edgar Nominee. She has published short stories in Invasive Species (“Saved”), Fishy Business (“Payout Payback”), Fish out of Water (“Doppelgangers”), and The Fish That Got Away (“Quarry”), all anthologies produced by chapters of Sisters in Crime.