Christy Leskovar was born in Butte, Montana, and grew up in Kennewick, Washington. She graduated from Seattle University with degrees in mechanical engineering and French, and then joined Bechtel in Gaithersburg, Maryland. After stints in Kansas, Barcelona, and San Francisco, she transferred to an assignment in Las Vegas. It was during a visit to her hometown that she learned the shocking news about her great-grandmother being arrested for murder. She then left her engineering career to find out what happened and write a book about it, traveling across the U.S. and Europe to find the story.  The research and writing took eight years. The result, One Night in a Bad Inn, was a 2007 High Plains Best New Book Award finalist. She is currently working on her second book, which chronicles the detective hunt behind how she found out where the bodies were buried in One Night in a Bad Inn, literally, and what happened next.

cleskovar@cox.net

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