Biography

    Kathy Brandt has been hooked on mysteries since she picked up The Secret of the Old Clock when she was about 10.  Now, if she doesn’t have a mystery on her bedside table, she goes into withdrawal.  Her leap from reading mysteries to writing them was inevitable.  She knew by the time she closed the pages on that first Nancy Drew book that she would someday write her own stories.

   Kathy’s mystery series, featuring police diver Hannah Sampson, debuted in October 2003 with Swimming with the Dead, published by Signet/Penguin, quickly followed by Dark Water Dive (July 2004), Dangerous Depths (May 2005), and Under Pressure (June 2006).  Kathy is now hard at work on book number five.

   The Caribbean setting and the focus on underwater crime investigation was a natural for Kathy.  A certified diver, she and her husband have been sailing and scuba diving in the islands for 20 years.  They live in the mountains of Colorado.

    Kathy has a BA in English and an MA in Rhetoric and Composition.  She taught non-fiction writing at the University of Colorado for ten years and has published dozens of articles in national magazines such as Women’s Sports and Fitness, Complete Woman, Sailing, Yachting, Heartland Boating, and Scouting Magazine.

She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Pike's Peak Writers.