Dershie McDevittDershie McDevitt, a lifelong writer, holds an MLA from UNC, Asheville where she won The Wilma Dykeman Award for excellence in nonfiction writing. Her popular Callahan Banks Mystery Series (including Just Holler Bloody Murder and Perils of a Pregnant leuth) follows nature lover, biology professor and crime solver Callahan Banks through suspenseful southern whodunits on a South Carolina barrier island. Dershie and her husband, Larry, live outside of Asheville, North Carolina. They have three adult children, four perfect grandchildren and share their mountain valley home with rescue pooch, Sassafras, and a particularly bossy cat named Orphan Annie. Read More Read Less