As I was finishing up the fourth Wollie Shelley novel, A Date You Can't Refuse, my publisher, Doubleday, was restructuring. Most of the Doubleday staff was dispersed, and my own editor ended up at Simon & Schuster. Thus, my series, as often happens in the publishing industry, was "orphaned." It's not easy for an orphaned series to find a new home, but in my case that was just fine; I'd been feeling for awhile that Wollie, a reluctant sleuth to begin with, needed time off from tripping over dead bodies and falling into bizarre dating schemes. So I wrote her a happy ending. Of course, I know what becomes of her as she lives happily ever after, and it's easy to imagine more corpses in her future, should a new publisher want to adopt her. But there are so many other things I want to write that that's not in the immediate future. So the answer to "where's Wollie?" is that she's alive and well in my head. And it delights me that people care about her whereabouts. So thanks for asking!

A DATE YOU CAN'T REFUSE 2009 Wollie's adventures continue as she becomes the social coach for a bunch of Eastern European celebrities brought to Los Angeles to become "Oprah-ready." It's another odd job gone wrong, another dead body, and another shot at true romance. Read more...

DEAD EX 2007 When television producer David Zetrakis is found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, Wollie is sad. When Wollie's best friend Joey—who once, like Wollie, dated the guy—is tried in the press for the murder and found guilty, Wollie is mad... and does what anyone would do for her best friend: takes on killers, cops, and paparazzi... Read more...

DATING IS MURDER 2005 In Dating Is Murder, Wollie moonlights as a contestant on Biological Clock, a low-budget reality dating show that may or may not be connected to an international drug ring and the disappearance of her German au pair friend, Annika. When Wollie vows to find her pal, she ends up smack-dab in the middle of a hefty FBI probe... Read more...

DATING DEAD MEN 2004 Wollie Shelley, greeting card designer and small business owner, is dating 40 men in 60 days as part of a research project for a bestselling radio personality; the $5,000 fee could help her struggling store, "Wollie's Welcome! Greetings." But when her brother calls from the mental hospital after witnessing a murder, Wollie meets a charismatic stranger and her troubles are just beginning... Read more...