Barbara Ross is the author of Clammed Up, first in a series of Maine Clambake Mysteries, published by Kensington in September 2013. She is the 2013 co-chair of The New England Crime Bake and a co-editor/co-publisher at Level Best Books, which produces an award-winning anthology of crime and mystery stories by New England authors every November. 

Barbara also blogs with a wonderful group of Maine mystery authors at Maine Crime Writers and with a group of writers of New England-based cozy mysteries at Wicked Cozy Authors. Barbara's first mystery novel, The Death of an Ambitious Woman, was published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage in August, 2010. In her former life, Barbara was a cofounder and Chief Operating Officer of two successful start-ups in educational technology.