Murder on Bill Gray Road

Raised in Orange County, California, Terry Tschann Skelton was employed as a court clerk and supervisor for Orange County Superior Court for 12 years. Her writing during that time consisted mostly of memos, letters, agendas and classroom materials. She moved to Cottonwood, Arizona in 1990 and worked in various capacities for the City of Cottonwood at the Cottonwood Fire Department, the Cottonwood Public Library and the local magistrate court. During this period she joined several writing groups and took creative writing classes with Barbara Hahn (who writes under the name of Barclay Franklin). With Barb’s encouragment she decided in 1992 to see if she could write a book, instead of short stories and bad poetry. That manuscript, Murder on Bill Gray Road, has followed her around from Arizona to Maine to California, surviving numerous computer glitches and resulting (finally!) in this book. In 2004 she retired with her husband to Kingston, a so-called ghost town in the Black Range of southern New Mexico where she and her husband have restored an old, run-down rock and adobe house on two acres. A mother and grandmother, Terry loves to hike, garden, read and crochet when she’s not writing. More road mysteries are under construction.