Terry Shames

Award-winning author Terry Shames is the author of the Samuel Craddock Mysteries and Jessie Madison Thrillers.

As well as winning the Macavity Award for Best First Novel, the first Samuel Craddock book, A Killing at Cotton Hill, /i>was also shortlisted for The Strand Critics Award, and The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake won the RT Critics Award for Best Mystery. Terry's books have also been shortlisted for Left Coast Crime Awards for Best Mystery.

Terry grew up in Texas, and is both a member of Sisters in Crime and on the board of Mystery Writers of America.