Rosalind Barden is fascinated by the history of Los Angeles's lost noir neighborhood, Bunker Hill. "The Cold Kid Case," the first in her zany, 1930s cozy noir "Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery" series is a #1 Amazon New Release and Firebird Book Award 1st Place Winner for Cozy Mysteries. "The Cannibal Caper" is the second in this young adult, historical mystery series with laugh-out-loud humor, and it won Best Young Adult Book and Top 10 Finisher for Best Mystery Novel in the Critters Readers Poll. Next in the series comes "The Monkey Island Murder" in 2024. She also writes short mystery and horror stories and has had over thirty published, including "The Monkey's Ghost," the inspiration for her "Sparky" series, which appears in FAPA President's Book Award Silver Medalist anthology "History and Mystery, Oh My!" Find out more at RosalindBarden.com
