Harley Jane Kozak, a sometimes actress, lives with her family in California’s Conego Valley. Her debut novel, Dating Dead Men, won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Its sequel was Dating is Murder, followed by Dead Ex and the upcoming A DATE YOU CAN’T REFUSE. her short prose has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Soap Opera Digest, The Sun, The Santa Monica Review, and the anthologies Mystery Muses, This is Chick Lit and A HELL OF A WOMAN.