Award-winning author Miriam Allenson writes about smart-mouthed women and the men who love them. (She’s been told she’s a little smart-mouthed herself.) Every woman who’s the hero of her stories, whether in her mysteries or her romances, stands up to challenge and wins. Her Tootsie Goldberg Mysteries are about a later-in-life feisty Jewish female sleuth who goes up against the bad guys to get justice for those who don’t know how to get it for themselves. The first book in the Tootsie Goldberg Mysteries is WHEN SHE GETS HOT, followed by WHEN SHE GETS SMART, and to-be-published shortly, WHEN SHE GETS BUSY. These days her heart is wholly in writing about Tootsie, her sense of what’s right, her madcap ways, and the trouble she gets into when going after the bad guys. Nothing holds Tootsie back when she’s on the case…except her hot, stoic cop, Steve DiLorenzo, otherwise known as Black Windbreaker. Yum. Miriam’s romances include FOR THE LOVE OF THE DAME, A DUKE FOR DESSERT, and WHEN THE DUKE FINDS HIS HEART. When Miriam is not working on a book—which is almost never—she’s in the kitchen baking something, gardening on the “huge” 8’x4’ deck of her apartment, or adding one more character to her 500+ Pez collection (no, she does NOT eat the Pez candy.). She likes black licorice but not chocolate, polenta more than pizza, and baseball any day over football. Miriam lives in northern New Jersey with her fabulous, supportive husband, Andy, and near five of her seven grandchildren. She’s happy to do overnights and will serve dessert on request before dinner (parents…mind your own business). Visit Miriam at www.miriamallenson.com or on her Facebook account, facebook.com/msallenson.
