Karen E. Olson

Twenty years of working in newsrooms with mice, moldy carpeting, out-of-date computer systems, cranky editors, weird reporters and an even odder public lent itself nicely to writing a mystery series about a police reporter. Once I left the newsroom, I decided to disregard all that "write what you know" stuff. I wrote four books about a tattoo artist who solves crimes in Las Vegas and then a thriller series about a woman computer hacker on the run. Now I've indulged my longtime Tudor obsession and have written contemporary retellings of Henry VIII and his wives—as crime novels.