Debbi Mack started life in New York City, but grew up in various places around the country, ending up in Maryland where she sets her mysteries. Her hardboiled mysteries, IDENTITY CRISIS and LEAST WANTED, feature intrepid crime-solving lawyer Stephanie Ann “Sam” McRae. A 2010 Derringer Award nominee, Debbi’s short stories have also been published in an anthology of her work called FIVE UNEASY PIECES, as well as in CHESAPEAKE CRIMES, CHESAPEAKE CRIMES: THEY HAD IT COMIN’, and The Back Alley Webzine. Debbi is a former attorney, who quit practicing law to become a full-time writer. She’s previously worked as a newswire reporter,reference librarian and freelance writer/researcher (as well as a school bus driver and photography model—but that was a long time ago). With degrees in journalism, law and library science, she’s basically too educated to take any job at this point. Debbi, her husband and their cats live in Columbia MD.
Books by Debbie Mack
Identity Crisis
--A domestic abuse case turns deadly, when the alleged abuser is killed and Sam McRae's client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft, that has her running from the mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to get to the truth about Melanie and her boyfriend. With her career and life on the line, Sam's search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives.
Least Wanted
--Maryland lawyer Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae has two tough cases that quickly turn worse, when both clients -- a poor black girl and a white, middle-class man -- are accused of murder. Sam's inquiries into the cases lead her to Washington, DC's suburban ghettos where she discovers an odd link between them: the seamy world of girl gangs and computer pornography. The stakes rise considerably as more people die at the hands of a maniacal killer who'll do anything to keep Sam from learning the truth. Sam races to clear her clients before she becomes the next victim.
Five Uneasy Pieces
--The short stories in this novella-length collection share the theme of having an odd twist or edginess that makes them gritty, slightly off-balance or unusual. They represent a range of genres from hardboiled mystery to noir to parody. Altogether, this collection has something for everyone who enjoys dark or edgy crime fiction. Includes the first three chapters of Least Wanted, the sequel to Identity Crisis.
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--Todd Collins has failed in every job he's ever undertaken, but that all changes when he backs his jalopy in a shiny, new Porsche belonging to a drug dealer. When the police stop the drug dealer for a broken taillight that Todd has caused and discover a cocaine shipment, a West Coast kingpin holds Todd responsible. On the run from organized crime, Todd discovers his true calling. 
--San Francisco Detective Larry Hayes thinks he's hit bottom when he wakes up in an alley after a bad trip with no memory of the last four hours. This is only the beginning of his problems. Two blocks away, Hayes' informant, a homeless man named Noble Jon, lies dead, beaten and stabbed. The eerie pangs of guilt seep into Hayes. Is he Jon's killer? The mounting evidence says so. Hayes mounts his own investigation to stay one step ahead of murder charge and disappears amongst the city's homeless community. 
--The workplace is a dangerous place. The unscrupulous are primed and ready to take advantage of the innocent and naïve. A slight indiscretion can cost the employee everything. A new position can turn a person into someone they are not. Those at the top can be toppled and those at the bottom can be crushed.