Elaine Viets
Elaine Viets is an American author of cozy mystery novels. She writes the Dead-End Job and Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper series. Elaine is also a journalist in her hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, where she was a regular columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 25 years. After moving to Washington D.C. and writing a syndicated columnist, she switched from the newspaper business to become a novelist with her Francesca Vierling series. Elaine has been married for over thirty years to author/actor Don Crinklaw and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.