Roberta Smith is the author of the four novels that make up the Mickey McCoy Paranormal Mystery Series, a book of Hitchcockian-type short stories, and the nonfiction book, "A Year in the Life of a Civil War Soldier: the 1864 Diary of Frank Steinbaugh." In "Bouquet of Lies" she has mixed her interest in mystery with a contemporary romance. She lives in southern California with her husband where she is active in the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club.