Katie Oliver loves a cozy mystery. She also enjoys Jane Austen novels. So she decided to put the two together to create Professor Phaedra Brighton, an intelligent, outspoken Austen scholar who teaches nineteenth century literature at Somerset University, a small liberal arts college located just outside of Laurel Springs, Virginia.

Phaedra frequently finds herself in the middle of a puzzling murder mystery. What's an amateur sleuth to do? Solve the mystery, of course - with a little help from the members of the Jane Austen Tea Society, her good friends Lucy Liang and Marisol Dubois. Not to mention her Himalayan cat, Wickham.

Ms. Oliver currently resides in South Florida with her husband, her computer, and an ever-growing stack of cozy mysteries waiting to be read. She is the author of nine romantic comedies.