Sharon Fiffer collects buttons, Bakelite, pottery, vintage potholders, keys, locks, and other killer stuff. She is coeditor of the anthologies "Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own"; "Body"; and" Family: American Writers Remember Their Own," and the author of "Killer Stuff "and "Dead Guy's Stuff," the previous two Jane Wheel mysteries, and "Imagining America," She lives near Chicago.