Micki Pierce grew up in Bordentown, NJ, where she spent much of her childhood reading mysteries set in the early half of the twentieth century. As a reader and a writer, her focus is on period detective fiction. Researching and writing about the hardships of American life in the 1930’s started out as just a hobby. Riding around the Midwest, on her husband’s Harley-Davidson, fueled her interest in the Mother Road. Creating a detective series about a mysterious, motorcycle-riding private eye and the characters he meets along the famous highway is the result. The Route 66 Detective in Missouri is her debut.