Gail Lee Cowdin grew up in in southern Minnesota. She is the author of four suspense-filled detective mystery, crime novels in the Deception series: Deception and Redemption, The Final Deception, both set in Minnesota, with Dark Deceptions and most recently The Spirit Tree Deceptions with the setting traveling from Minnesota to Arkansas . More of her writing can be found at her blog as GailLeeCowdin, She also has FB and Instagram accounts. She has degrees from Minnesota University Mankato and Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She currently resides in Northwest Arkansas with her husband, their golden retriever and black cat.