Raised in a sleepy town in the Berkshires, Linda Reilly is the author of the Cat Lady Mysteries from Kensington Lyrical, and the Deep Fried Mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime. A dyed-in-the-wool New Englander, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. When she's not hunched over her keyboard dreaming up murder and mayhem, she's curled up in her favorite chair reading an enticing mystery.