Maggie Sefton is the New York Times bestselling author of the Berkley Prime Crime Knitting Mysteries. Unraveled, ninth in the series, made the New York Times bestselling Hardcover Fiction List after its June 2011 release. All of the mysteries in the successful series have also been Barnes & Noble Top Ten Bestselling Mysteries. Maggie was first published in historical fiction in 1995 with Abilene Gamble under the pen name Margaret Conlan. She wrote over a million words of historical romance fiction before she ever wrote her first mystery. Dying to Sell, with real estate agent sleuth Kate Doyle, was published by Five Star/Tekno Mysteries in 2005. Maggie has been a CPA and a real estate agent in the Rocky Mountain West, but finds nothing can match creating worlds on paper.