Catherine Dilts has lived in Colorado for decades now but spent her formative years in Oklahoma. The Body in the Cornfield is the second entry in her Rose Creek Mystery series, after The Body in the Cattails (May 2023), set in the Ozark foothills in northeastern Oklahoma. Author of the Rock Shop Mysteries (Stone Cold Dead, Stone Cold Case, and Stone Cold Blooded) and the stand-alone Survive Or Die with Encircle Publications, Catherine also writes for Annie's Fiction, including the Mackinac Island Knitters series. Her short stories appear in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Journeys into Possibility: Tales from the Pikes Peak Writers.