Author's Spotlight with Leslie Kohler-Sins Of The Border

My guest today is Leslie Kohler, a professional writer whose work has been published in several magazines, and the newspaper. She's been published in Highlights For Children, Skipping Stones, Listen, and Winner. Also, Positive Teens, and The Arizona Republic. "SINS OF THE BORDER" is her first novel. It's a cozy, murder mystery, with the issues of Mexican drug violence, and illegal immigration integral to the plot. As a native Californian, and current Arizona resident, she has witnessed the escalating problems along the border. At the age of fourteen, she worked in the dry yards of Northern California, preparing fruit for processing in one-hundred-plus degree heat. She witnessed the struggles of Hispanic migrant families, in which all members toiled side-by-side. During this time, she developed an empathy for these hard working people.