Lynn Bohart lives in the Northwest. As a thirty-year nonprofit executive, she has spent her entire career writing in one form or another - brochures, newsletters, letters of intent, policies and procedures, fundraising letters, and press releases. With a master's degree in theater (in directing), she writes as if she were creating the story for the big screen. "I visualize scenes in my head," she says, "as if I was watching a movie." Lynn has been published in Woman's World and "Dead on Demand", an anthology of ghost stories which rose to #13 on the Library Journal Bestsellers List. She also wrote a weekly column for Patch.com for a short stint and teaches a class in "Crafting the Story/Short Stories & Novels". Lynn loves a good mystery, the paranormal, and stories with a twist and works hard to build those elements into her stories. "I want people to actually enjoy reading my stories. I want them to find the characters different and interesting and the mysteries intriguing." If you've read her novels, you'll also notice that she weaves her love for the theater and dogs into the story lines. All four novels have a dog that plays a major role in some fashion. "I want the dogs to be realistic, though," she says. "I don't like books that make animals seem like cartoon figures."She now has four highly rated novels, "Mass Murder" and the second in the Giorgio Salvatori series, "Murder In The Past Tense." "Grave Doubts" and "Inn Keeping With Murder" (the first in the Old Maids of Mercer Island mysteries). Inn Keeping With Murder remained on the top 100 ghost story list for over 10 months and enjoys over 400 reviews, over two-thirds of those being 4-5 stars. She has now published the sequel to "Inn Keeping With Murder". The girls are back in "A Candidate For Murder." She has also published two short story books. "Your Worst Nightmare" and a single creepy short story, "Something Wicked." She is hard at work on the next Old Maids of Mercer Island mystery, and the third Giorgio Salvatori mystery.