Laura Jensen Walker has loved mysteries ever since she read Trixie Belden in the fourth grade in her Danish-founded hometown of Racine, Wisconsin--America's kringle capital. A former journalist and the author of several novels and humorous nonfiction books, including Thanks for the Mammogram!, she chose, like her main character, to go flat after her second mastectomy. She lives with her Renaissance-man husband and their canine-daughter Mellie in California.
