Pat Dunlap Evans

Pat Dunlap Evans was born in Michigan but at age two, her family moved to San Antonio and later Dallas, Texas, where she was an age-group swimming champ. At South Oak Cliff High School, Pat was a high-kicking officer in the renowned Golden Debs drill team and typed copy as co-editor of the school newspaper. She won a scholarship to attend Southern Methodist University.

An early marriage and the birth of three children plunged Pat into the world of motherhood, until the kids were mature enough for her to complete her bachelor's and master's degrees in English at University of Missouri, Kansas City. The latter degree offered an emphasis in creative writing, which sent Pat on her way to novel writing.

Pat's first husband was a quarterback with the SuperBowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs. She used her experiences as an NFL wife for background in the novel Out and In: a mystery-thriller. After the long marriage ended, Pat stressed her way as a single mom through a career in advertising, PR, and marketing posts in Dallas and Austin. A second marriage to Dr. Bill Evans of Austin enabled Pat to focus on her true love of writing.

Pat has published four novels, To Leave a Memory: a warm coming together; Out and In: a mystery-thriller, Backstory: behind the scenes of a famous film-thriller; and Ice and Fire: a suspenseful thriller set in Hawai'i.

Pat and Bill resided on the Big Island of Hawai'i for three years. Ice and Fire is the sequel to Out and In, which was the first book in the Curious Cellist series. The couple recently returned to the Mainland, choosing Las Vegas, Nevada, as their new home.

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