Cathy PickensCathy Pickens, a lawyer and college professor, is a crime fiction writer ( Southern Fried Mysteries, St. Martin's/Minotaur) and true crime columnist for Mystery Readers Journal . She taught law in the McColl School of Business and served as provost a Queens, as national president of Sisters in Crime and on the boards of Mystery Writers of America and the Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program (an evidence collection/preservation training collaborative). She is also the author of Charleston Mysteries: Ghostly Haunts in the Holy City (The History Press, 2007). Read More Read Less