Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather Weidner has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. Through the years, she's been a cop's kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. As an author, she writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries, and her short stories have appeared in various publications.

She is also a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers; International Thriller Writers; and James River Writers; and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and a pair of Jack Russell terriers.