Barbara Jean Coast is the pen name of authors Andrea Taylor and Heather Shkuratoff, both of whom reside in Saint Martins, New Brunswick, Canada. Barbara Jean, however, is a resident of Santa Lucia, California (eerily similar to Santa Barbara), where she enjoys long lunches, cocktail parties, fancy dinner dates with attractive and attentive gentlemen. Her interests include Alfred Hitchcock movies, reading Carolyn Keene, music by popular musicians, such Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, shopping for new dresses, attending society events and always looking fabulous in kitten heels. DEATH OF A BEAUTY QUEEN is the follow-up to STRANGLED BY SILK in the Poppy Cove Mystery Series. Visit her website www.barbarajeancoast.com where you can also follow her blog www.welcometopoppycove.wordpress.com, Twitter www.twitter.com/BarbaraJCoast, Like Poppy Cove Mysteries and Friend Barbara Jean Coast on www.facebook.com