Debra Brown is a detective with the Seattle Police Department having come to a career in law enforcement fifteen years ago at the ripe old age of thirty-eight. Brown considers herself a beginning meditator in the Vipassana tradition. She lives with her partner, two dogs and a cat in West Seattle. In a perfect world, she would write full time and still get to do the fun police stuff. Perfection not withstanding, she gets to do the fun stuff full time with a healthy serving of writing on the side.