Peggy Townsend

Peggy Townsend is an award-winning journalist-turned-author with four mystery novels to her name. She has panhandled with street kids, taken a flashlight to a knife fight and chronicled the life of a woman who measured her riches in sunrises and the calls of birds. Her latest mystery, The Botanist’s Assistant, was inspired by Townsend’s love of nature and science, and has been called “bighearted” and “delightful” by early reviewers.

Her first three books, See Her Run, The Thin Edge and The Beautiful and the Wild have been widely praised. She divides her time between the Central California coast and the Sierra Nevada mountains and, when she isn’t writing, she is downhill skiing, mountain biking and camping in the wild.