Carole Howard lives with her husband in New York's mid-Hudson Valley. A world traveler, she has lived in several West African countries. As a management consultant, she came up-close-and-personal to the issues--some petty and some not--of the corporate world. Carol is the author of Deadly Adagio, a murder mystery with musical undertones, set in West Africa in the midst of U.S. foreign service personnel. She is also co-author of The Great Paris WalkPack, a set of self-guided walking tours of Paris.