Cherie Reich has always have a love of reading, but she hasn't always been a writer. As a child, she rarely was seen without a book. When Disney's Beauty and the Beast came out, she modeled herself after Belle and was found walking the halls of her elementary school with a book in her hand. She has always been the type to read anything, but the books she enjoyed the most were mystery books. She has always been a big fan of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Her tastes in reading have branched out from Doyle to authors ranging from Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who books to John Maddox R more...