Kelly Nichols attended Northern Michigan University then moved to Arizona before spending 15 years in the gaming industry in Las Vegas then as HR manager in a Philadelphia casino.
[2] Kristy Montee earned a degree in education from Eastern Michigan University but then worked as a reporter in Michigan and then in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she worked on the Sun-Sentinel rising to assistant managing editor.
[2] Montee lives in Fort Lauderdale and Nichols resides in Elk Rapids, Michigan[4] Their first series features biracial Michigan-based police detective Louis Kincaid and is set in the 1980s.
In the first novel he returns to his hometown in Mississippi for a temporary reassignment due to his mother's terminal illness.
[2] Female detective Joe Frye makes an appearance in A Killing Rain and has since played a larger role in the series, according to the authors website "She stayed in the book to help him solve the crime.