Winner of a 2020 FAPA President's Book Award Gold Medal, and a 2020 Reader's Favorite Book Awards Finalist Seal, Judith Erwin is a retired attorney and freelance writer. The author of eight published novels in the crime-solving mystery, romance, romantic suspense, and women's fiction genres, her nineth book, The Price of Murder, Book 3 in the crime-solving Shepherd & Associates Series, is scheduled to launch in 2023.