Tracy Whiting is also known as T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, the award-winning Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. An undergraduate at the University of Rochester, she received the Ph.D. in French Studies at Brown University in Providence, RI. She has published over 14 academic books. She has been a commentator on NPR, FOX News, and MSNBC. Her work has been reviewed in the Washington Post, the Nashville Scene, and Ms. Magazine. Her first foray into mystery, Miss Baker Regrets, was published as Book II in Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars in February 2015. Her second mystery--a cozy with an action thriller twist, The 13th Fellow: A Mystery in Provence, is set between Paris and a seaside Provençal town called Cassis (not pronounced like the liqueur) in the South of France; its heroine is the amateur detective and American professor, Havilah Gaie, who, like the author, is inquisitive, a foodie, globetrotter, and an avid reader. Tracy's favorite places to write are Paris, France and Newport, Rhode Island. Otherwise, she resides in Nashville, Tennessee with her daughter and husband.For autographs of eBook versions of The 13th Fellow: A Mystery in Provence or Bricktop's Paris, please go to Authorgraph.com and search by title or Bricktop's Paris as author. To contact Tracy, please email her at: TWhitingMystery@aol.com