Keith's company, Woolly Mammoth Multimedia, does music, film, video, audio, web pages, illustrations, and publications, and he performs regularly in the L.A. area with ambient/groove/spoken word group The Cosmic Debris. Keith's first mystery novel, Show Control, is about a musician who looks into the onstage death of a performance artist. His music can be heard on various short film soundtracks, the new Norton Utilities for Windows 95 (version 2.0, the one with the spiffy 3D animation), and assorted other various and miscellaneous sundries and stuff.

Liz has been an aptitude tester, a reporter, a nationally syndicated columnist, and now writes mysteries about an absent-minded sleuth from North Carolina who uses memory tricks to solve murders. Said sleuth helped Liz win an Agatha award for the best mystery short story of 1995: The Dog Who Remembered Too Much. Liz is also thrilled to be an Anthony nominee at Bouchercon.

Shari was a trial attorney for almost ten years. Shortly after the birth of her first child, she returned to school and earned a Master's degree in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling. While counseling convicted sex offenders, she was struck by the relatively insignificant sentences most receive and the lack of proof that therapy keeps them from reoffending.

Fatal Convictions is about a serial killer who targets child molesters. It combine Shari's legal and psychological training in a fictional examination of the frustration engendered by the failure of the criminal justice system to adequately punish child molesters and protect their victims.

Shari lives in Southern California with her husband and two children and is currently working on her second book.

Kate is a chicken farmer's daughter, former public sector attorney, mom, Maniac (person from the great state of Maine), good citizen, and that rarest of birds, an attorney who doesn't write about lawyers and the law.

Her character, Thea Kozak, is a young, widowed working woman drawn by her loyalties and commitments to friends, family and employers into solving crimes. Her first Thea Kozak book, Chosen for Death, in which Thea's murdered sister was searching for her birth parents, was triggered by an anguished letter from a birth mother in an Ann Landers column. In the second, Death in a Funhouse Mirror, a former roommate demands Thea's help in proving her father is a murderer. In Death at the Wheel, Thea's mother, who chronically complains about Thea's dangerous life, insists Thea prove that her protege, Julie Bass, who is married, fertile, a domestic--all the things Thea is not--did not engineer her husband's racing car death.

Kate lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband, two sons, and two cats.