Sarah Beth Hopton

Sarah Beth Hopton came by her love of crime writing honestly; her father was a detective and a graduate of Quantico’s FBI Academy, and he shared his love of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes with her at an early age. She grew up visiting her dad at the county jail and pouring over his old, unsolved case files or eating a Snickers bar with Old Smokey, the beloved District Attorney who told tall tales about the rural county's many criminal shenanigans. Hopton is currently Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University. When she’s not in the archives tracking down the next case, she’s working her organic homestead with her partner and their dogs, pigs, chickens, too many ducks, rabbits, and rascally fainting goat named after her dad, Bob. Woman at the Devil’s Door is her debut book.