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Chris Keefer has been a store clerk, teacher, quasi-social worker, truck-farm vegetable picker, but always a writer. Her work includes a twenty-year run as a weekly newspaper columnist on the subject of birding, and she currently writes news of her hometown in the local paper. She has published articles in numerous magazines including Coping, Conservationist, and Kaatskill Life, and has indie-published a chapbook of humorous rants. Her debut novel, No Comfort for the Undertaker, is the first of three Carrie Lisbon mysteries. Tragedy's Twin was released in 2023, and Find Your Way to My Grave (2024) was a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist for Best Historical Mystery in 2025. Chris earned three degrees in education, is a member of Sisters in Crime, SINC Guppies, Mavens of Mayhem (Upper Hudson Chapter of SINC), Historical Novel Society, and attends virtual and in-person writer’s groups each week. Chris lives in an old country house with her husband. She birds, gardens, kayaks, metal-detects, bikes, and most recently got into grandmothering, in upstate New York.