Pearson O'Meara

Pearson O’Meara writes crime fiction, usually inspired by her home state — Louisiana. She is a retired law enforcement professional with extensive experience in complex missing, abducted, and exploited children investigations. She also provides technical advice to authors, novelists, writing groups, and television and film producers.

Because she divides her time between Boston, Massachusetts, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she belongs to the New England and New Orleans Sisters in Crime chapters. She also belongs to the Mystery Writers of America, the Public Safety Writers Association, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

Pearson retired early to continue her education, and she recently earned her doctorate in law and policy from Northeastern University. However, after a serious arm and shoulder injury in late 2020 sidelined her research, she decided to try her “good hand” at crime fiction. She typed her first short story one-handed. That story, “Little Green Flowers,” was a finalist for New England Crime Bake’s 2021 Al Blanchard Short Crime Fiction Award.

Her flash fiction, “Savage Beads,” was published in Shotgun Honey in March 2021, and her short story, “The LadySmith,” was published in February 2022 in To Protect, Serve, and Write: Cops Writing Crime Fiction (Volume I), available on Amazon.

Her latest short story, “Routine Traffic Stop,” is featured in The Tattered Blue Line: Short Stories of Contemporary Policing, an anthology dedicated to the realities of police work. It is available on Amazon.

Pearson is working on her first novel. She is not represented but hopes that will change.

You can follow her on Twitter at @pearsonomeara and @capableguardian, on Instagram at @pearsonomeara, and on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-pearson-mcj-432382176/.