Kiss of Death

Linda Palmer was born in Georgia, grew up in Florida, and later moved to New York City before going to East Africa, where she became a successful wild life photographer. Returning to America, she earned her living photographing children and families and began to write again. She has written for television, for the screen, and became a production vice president of TriStar Pictures. Finally, she found her true creative love: writing mystery novels. She published four as Linda Palmer, and is currently writing a second series of mysteries as Melinda Wells. In addition to writing mystery novels, she teaches novel-writing in the UCLA Extension Writers Program. She lives in California.

Celeste Lawson is an Earphones Award winner and Audie Award nominee. She is the recording studio director for the Talking Books Program at the Library of Congress’ National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. She was a dancer and an actor before finding her niche in the intriguing, challenging, and extremely satisfying world of narration. In Silver Spring, Maryland, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and cat, she practices yoga and continues to dance. Celeste has also recorded for Blackstone Audio under the name C. M. Hébert.