About
DEBORAH J LEDFORD is the award-winning author of the Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran suspense thriller series, including REDEMPTION and HAVOC, set in Taos, New Mexico. Part Eastern Band Cherokee, she is an Agatha Award winner, The Hillerman Sky Award Finalist, and two-time Anthony Award Finalist for Best Audiobooks CRESCENDO and CAUSING CHAOS from her Smoky Mountain Inquest Series. Deborah is a member of: The Authors Guild, International Thriller Writers, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime (SinC) International, and past-president of the SinC Desert Sleuths Chapter. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and awesome Ausky. DeborahJLedford.com
Featured Work
HAVOC
A bank robbery has left an officer down and a suspect on the run. Law enforcement is in hot pursuit, and residents are on the lookout—but before anyone can catch the criminal, tragedy strikes.
A member of the Taos Pueblo tribe has been shot and killed. The culprit? An untraceable 3D printed gun. With the support of fellow tribal cops, Eva "Lightning Dance" Duran breaks the news to the victim’s family and swears to find justice.
More violence follows, feeding the rising racial tensions between the Taos Pueblo people and the Hispanic community. New evidence forces Eva to consider the possibility that the bank robbery and 3D guns are related, but until she figures out how, there’s no telling how deep this crime ring goes…or how far its evasive ringleader will go to protect it.
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- Anthony Award Finalist for CAUSING CHAOS in the Best Audio Book Category
- Anthony Award Finalist for CRESCENDO in the Best Audio Book Category
- Hillerman Sky Award Finalist for SNARE, Best Mystery Representing the Southwest
- Agatha Award Winner - Contributing Author for “The Writing Life Series” Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey” in the Best Non-Fiction Category
- New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards Finalist for SNARE in the Mystery/Suspense Category
- 3-Time Nominee for the Pushcart Prize in the Short Story Category
