Janet Poland

Like Miren Lassiter, the heroine of Same River Twice, Janet Poland is a westerner transplanted to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She grew up in California, the great-granddaughter of a Colorado cattle rancher. And like Miren, she worked as a newspaper reporter and editor. Later, Janet published seven parenting books, and now her first mystery novel.

But unlike Miren, she isn't reclusive or burdened with a dark and troubled past. She lives in an 1830s farmhouse with a husband, a Maine Coon cat, and twelve sheep.

When she isn't working on the next Miren Lassiter mystery, she enjoys writing poetry and flash fiction, and visiting her two grown sons.