Amanda Matetsky

Amanda Matetsky was an editor of entertainment magazines and a volunteer literacy tutor before becoming a fiction writer. Her popular Paige Turner mysteries (Murderers Prefer Blondes, Murder Is a Girl's Best Friend, How to Marry a Murderer, Murder on a Hot Tin Roof, and Dial Me for Murder) are set in Manhattan in the 1950s and feature a young Korean War widow who is struggling to support herself by writing true crime stories for Daring Detective magazine. Amanda's first Annie March novel, The Perfect Body, won the NJRW Golden Leaf Award for Best First Book, and is now available in a new trade paperback edition. The second Annie March mystery, The Serial Lover, was released in 2010. Amanda lives in New Jersey with her husband, Harry, and their two cats, Homer and Phoebe, in a house full of laughter and love and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. You can visit the author online at www.amandamatetsky.com.