Barbara Ross is the award-winning author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries and the Jane Darrowfield Mysteries. Her first and fourth Maine Clambake Mysteries, Clammed Up and Fogged Inn, were Agatha Award-finalists and the sixth installment, Stowed Away, won the 2019 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. She is co-editor/co-publisher of Level Best Books, which produces anthologies of crime stories by New England authors. She lives with her husband in Portland, Maine and can be found online at MaineClambakeMysteries.com.