Deborah Sharp is a former reporter for USA Today. She left the sad stories of the news biz behind to write the ''Mace Bauer Mysteries,'' set in a sweet-tea-and-barbecue slice of her native Florida. Her books are funny, with a soft Southern edge: Carl Hiaasen on estrogen.
The latest is MAMA SEES STARS (Midnight Ink, September 2011). When a Hollywood film crew comes a callin,' will Mama's close-up lead to murder? The series debut was MAMA DOES TIME (2008). To research the trail-ride setting of her second book, 2009's MAMA RIDES SHOTGUN, Deborah saddled up for a 120-mile horseback trek across Florida. What was she thinking? In MAMA GETS HITCHED(2010), Mama's fifth try at tying the sacred knot is stymied when her caterer winds up dead at the VFW before the first pig-in-a-blanket is passed.
Deborah's short fiction and essays have appeared nationally. Her humor commentaries have been heard on NPR. She chatted with Al Roker on the Today Show about her wacky Mama character.
She lives in southern Florida with husband Kerry Sanders, an NBC-TV reporter. No kids. No pets. They had goldfish once. Turned out badly.
