About the Authors

Seattle native MARY DAHEIM’s career as a published mystery novelist began in 1991 with the release of her first Bed-and-Breakfast novel. She received the Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2000 Achievement Award “for distinguished professional achievement and for enhancing the stature of the Northwest literary community.” She lives in Seattle with her husband.

CAROLYN HART’s most recent Death on Demand novel is Engaged to Die. Her novel Sugarplum Dead won the 2000 Oklahoma book Award for Fiction. A winner of multiple Agatha, Anthony, and McCavity Awards, she is also the creator of the highly praised mystery series featuring retired journalist-turned-sleuth Henrietta “Henrie O” O’Dwyer Collins. Ms. Hart lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

JANE ISENBERG began writing the Bel Barrett mystery series when she experienced her first hot flash. By then she had been teaching English to urban community college students for close to thirty years. Now retired, Ms. Isenberg’s copies of Modern Maturity are delivered to her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, that she shares with her husband.

SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY‘s popular Joe Grey series has won four National Cat Writers’ Association Awards for Best Novel of the Year. She is also a noted children’s book author whose work has received five Council of Authors and Journalists Awards. She and her husband live in Carmel, California, where they serve as full-time household help to two demanding feline ladies.

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