Leslie O'Kane is the author of 18 mystery novels, which include the Molly Masters Mysteries, the Allida Babcock Mysteries, and, writing as Leslie Caine, the Domestic Bliss Mysteries. As is true for virtually all aspects of her life, she loves to use humor in her books. Leslie was once taken hostage in a robbery, and she prefers writing about crimes to taking part in them. Leslie and her husband live in Boulder, Colorado, and have two grown children, about whose childhoods Molly Masters' children were loosely based. Leslie's daughter is a mathematician and manager, and her son is an officer in the Air Force who, at the time of this writing, is serving in Afghanistan.