Sheila Connolly has taught art history, structured and marketed municipal bonds for major cities, worked as a staff member on two statewide political campaigns, and served as a fundraiser for several non-profit organizations. She also managed her own consulting company providing genealogical research services. Now a full-time writer, she thinks writing mysteries is a lot more fun than any of her previous occupations.  Luckily she's been able to use bits and pieces of all of her prior lives in her writing.   Ms. Connolly is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Romance Writers of America, the New England Chapter of RWA, and the online RWA mystery/suspense chapter Kiss of Death. She lives in a too-big Victorian in southeastern Massachusetts with her husband and three cats, as well as her poet-daughter who graduated from college with a degree in comparative literature and now works in a bookstore.

B.A., Wellesley College
Ph.D., Fine Arts, Harvard University
M.B.A., Finance, University of California, Berkeley