Karen Harper

A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Karen Harper is a former college English instructor atThe Ohio State University and high school literature and writing teacher. A lifelong Ohioan, Karen and her husband Don divide their time between the midwest and the southeast, both locations she has used in her books. Besides her American settings, Karen loves the British Isles, where her Scottish and English roots run deep, and where she has set many of her historical Tudor-era mysteries and her historical novels.

Karen's books have been translated into many foreign languages and she won the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2005. Karen has given numerous talks to readers and writers across the county. She the author of more that 37 books, the most recent Below the Surface is a contemporary suspense novel set in Florida.

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