The Missing Heiress (Detective Lavender)
Karen Charltongrew up in Sheffield and Leeds. She completed an English degree at Hull University. After a few years of roaming between various jobs in Harrogate, Ripon, and Scarborough she finally settled in Teesside. She completed a postgraduate teaching certificate at Durham University. Since then, she has combined a teaching job at a Stockton secondary school with her writing and raising her own pair of "little villains." The Regency Reivers Series is based on the true story of her family's notorious ancestor, Jamie Charlton.