Paula Charles is the author of Hammers and Homicide. During her childhood, she grew up in a town suspiciously resembling the fictional Pine Bluff, Oregon, where she trailed behind her grandmother in the family's hardware store until she got put to work counting nails. When she isn't writing under the towering trees of the Pacific Northwest, she can be found in the garden with her hands in the dirt or sitting on her front porch with a good book and a glass of iced tea.
