Jones started her academic career as a science geek, earned a degree in art, and, when she's not making quilts or herding cats, writes grisly thrillers. Her award winning Dubric Byerly Mystery series, “Ghosts in the Snow”, “Threads of Malice”, and “Valley of the Soul”, were published by Bantam Spectra and her newest novel, “Spore”, will be published via Samhain Publishing this summer. Despite the violent nature of her work, Tam's easygoing and friendly. Not sick or twisted at all. Honest.