Karen Berg-Raftakis is the author of the Arianna Archer murder mystery series: Murder on the Church Council, A Dance with Death, A Killing Too Close to Home, Slaughter on Sanibel Island and Libraries can be Lethal. She is also a writer of poetry. Many of her poems are published in her anthology, And the Days Go By: Twenty-Five Years of Poetry. She makes her home in Brookfield, IL.