Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Susan C. Shea! Hi readers! THE KING’S JAR is the second of three traditional mysteries with a dose of humor that feature Dani O’Rourke. She’s a modern, successful career woman. She’s like a lot of her real-life peers in many ways. She’s in her mid-thirties, is moving past a painful divorce, fretting about her weight, and pouring herself into a hard but occasionally glamorous job as a fundraiser for the Devor Museum in San Francisco. As the story begins, she’s organizing a gala event that will take place in New York City’s most elegant private club. The event will honor the uber-wealthy and socially prominent San Francisco couple who are donating a priceless African artifact to the Devor. Panic ensues when the “king’s jar” is stolen shortly before the event. Cancel the event? Hardly! Dani and her museum colleagues have to find it fast, which becomes problematic when the professor who had custody of it is found dead and the police suspect he was…

He can be swathed in a Victorian cloak like Heathcliff, a Regency jacket like Darcy, or a short sleeved shirt with a pack of cigarettes rolled into the sleeve like James Dean, but we all know him for who he is – the quintessential bad boy. He’s the one we want to hate, or at least to shun. He woos us, then drops us, hurts our feelings, then asks for forgiveness with those appealing little boy eyes. What is it about bad boys, anyway? Are they born knowing they can get away with a lot because they have long eyelashes? Do they figure it out in kindergarten? Sixth grade? Because they sure know it by high school. It’s a fascinating character type, and one I had no intention of exploring in my debut mystery, MURDER IN THE ABSTRACT, which came out in late June. But I invented a back story for my protagonist, Dani O’Rourke, so she would fit into the high society world, but as a bit of an outsider: She was once married to the scion of a wealthy family, a young man with two Porsches, several hundred million dollars, and a roving eye. Okay, that got her…