Sherry Rankin grew up in New Jersey where she became an early and avid reader of mystery fiction.

 

She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and currently lives in Abilene, Texas where she has taught writing and literature at a local university for twenty years.

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She has written scholarly articles and worked as an editorial consultant, manuscript reader and ghostwriter, but her avocation has always been creative writing.

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Her novel, Strange Fire, was shortlisted for the 2017 Daniel Goldsmith First Novel Prize and won the 2017 CWA Debut Dagger Award.

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Her debut thriller, The Killing Plains, was published by Thomas & Mercer as a super lead title in February 2025 and became an international Kindle bestseller. 

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 She is currently working on her second novel. 

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More information at https://www.sherryrankinauthor.com/

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Photo credit: Matt Maxwell