Carol Houlihan Flynn has published a mystery novel, Washed in the Blood, (Putnam 1983) and - in her other life as an English professor - several academic works, including The Body in Swift and Defoe (Cambridge 2005), and Samuel Richardson, a Man of Letters (Princeton 1982).
She was for many years Professor of English at Tufts University, in Massachusetts.
Raised in Chicago, she now lives in Boston.