Laura Levine is a former sitcom writer whose credits include The Bob Newhart Show, Laverne & Shirley, The Jeffersons, The Love Boat, Three’s Company, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. As an advertising copywriter, she created Count Chocula and Frankenberry cereals for General Mills. Her work has been published in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
In her latest (and favorite) incarnation as a mystery novelist, she has been a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Romantic Times award for Most Humorous Mystery. When not writing mysteries, she contributes comedy material to Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” She and her husband live in Los Angeles.