Rebecca A. Miles (Neé Rebecca A. Stepek) has successfully infused her writing with her experience from her years as a psychologist. Her work with patients in Behavioral Medicine in Oncology has shaped and deepened how she draws her relatable and all-too-human fictional characters. Across all of her novels she presents friendship as the healing salve to life’s unexpected challenges.

In her decade as a writer, she first produced the PITTSBURGH MURDER MYSTERY trilogy, Ground Truth, Broken Glass, Locked Box, all traditional mysteries. Locked Box achieved Best Seller status on Amazon and all three novels have five-star ratings.

Her fourth novel, La Quinceañera, is a more psychological and personal novel in which she uses a crime as a device around which the main character grows and changes in her familial relationships. Rebecca explores the deep attachment between the main character, Marisol, a math teacher, and her immigrant grandmother. She dedicates this novel to her own immigrant grandmother with whom she was close.

Holiday Mysteries and Enchantments is a delightful and sometimes morally tantalizing collection of short stories based in the major American holidays. This compendium is dedicated to P.D. James who often wrote a Christmas mystery for the local papers in London. Rebecca believes that women who write murder mysteries are the “renegade daughters of fiction,” often looked down upon by the mainstream literati. As a psychologist, she views these renegade daughters as women who first and foremost seek justice in the world.

Rebecca A. Miles holds a Doctorate in Psychology from the Duquesne University. She left her Assistant Professor position at DU to train in Behavioral Medicine in Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The last decade of her private practice focused on treating medical and academic residents, fellows, attending physicians, nurses and university professors.

LA QUINCEAÑERA and HOLIDAY MYSTERIES AND ENCHANTMENTS will be out in early 2026.