Karen E. Olson

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Karen Olson: Twenty years of working in newsrooms with mice, moldy carpeting, out-of-date computer systems, cranky editors, weird reporters and an even odder public lent itself nicely to writing a mystery series about a police reporter. After being out of the newsroom for a while, I decided to disregard all that "write what you know" stuff. I wrote four books in a series about a tattoo artist who solves crimes in Las Vegas and four thrillers about a woman computer hacker on the run. Now I've tapped into my Tudor England obsession with a modern retelling of Henry VIII and his wives as a crime novel.