Ted Haynes is the author of Pole Pedal Murder (on sale July 12, 2022), The Mt. Bachelor Murders, The Mirror Pond Murders, Suspects (all four books in the Northwest Murder Mystery series), On the Road from Burns (short stories), The Dot.com Terrorist (a novel), and co-author of Vandevert – The Hundred Year History of a Central Oregon Ranch. He studied fiction writing at Dartmouth College, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University. Ted first visited Central Oregon in 1975 and has loved it ever since. He and his wife have a log house on the Little Deschutes River.