Shannon Baker

Shannon Baker writes mysteries set in the iconic landscapes of the American West, from the Colorado Rockies to the Nebraska prairies, to the deserts of southern Arizona, where she’s roamed in rafts and kayaks, backpacked, hiked, cycled, and skied. Now a resident of Tucson on traditional Pascua Yaqui land, Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by more than 50:1. She is proud to have been chosen a two-time winner of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year and is a New Mexico/Arizona Book Award winner. Baker’s Kate Fox series, contracted into the double digits, is set in the Nebraska Sandhills, population .95 people/square mile, where Kate keeps law and order amid a cast of a dozen or so locals.