Patricia is a retired veteran of the Travel Industry. She worked for two airlines and three travel agencies, the last, one of the world's largest, for twenty years. Her latest book, Brownstone Burial is a paranormal mystery set in 1963, and has an airline reservations department of the time as background. Her book, Downsized To Death, is about a working, travel agent manager of a national travel company facing downsizing when murder is added to her work load.
She lives on a floating home in Oregon. Her short story, The Critique Group, appearsin the anthology, Fish Tales-The Guppy Anthology, and it take place in a floating home moorage.
She considers her books a traditional mystery by British definition, as the puzzle and twists are important.