Arlene Harman lives in California with her husband, Jack. The native Californian was an avid reader before she started first grade. By the time she was in fourth grade she was sneaking her parents' Agatha Christie novels. Finally, at the age of twelve, her parents decided she was old enough to read such novels and she relished getting to read them again. With a life-long love for mysteries, it's no surprise that she chose that as her writing genre.