Pridgen, Patsy: - Patsy Pridgen is a lifelong resident of Eastern North Carolina, where she has absorbed the culture and dialects of this distinct part of the state. Married to her high school sweetheart since the Carter administration, she is a mother of three and grandmother of five. Patsy taught English in the community college for 27 years, handing in her red pen the semester she turned 60, the magical age when state employees with her time served qualify for a retirement check.Patsy blogs at www.patsypridgen.com, where she writes about everything from traveling around Iceland in January to attempting yoga in the fellowship hall of the Methodist church. In addition to Money and Murder in Narrow Creek, she is the author of the first two books in the Narrow Creek Series: Ms. Dee Ann Meets Murder and Life and Death in Narrow Creek.