Anonymous

Nancy Tesler started as an actor, progressed to writing screen and stage plays, and then, inspired by the overwhelming urge to do someone in, moved on to writing mysteries about the murderously wacky world of divorce.

She was born and raised in Worcester, Mass., and moved with her family to New York City when she was eighteen. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with a major in drama, she toured France with a production of "Born Yesterday."

She acted in films, television and off-Broadway theater until the birth of her first child. She then began writing for the stage, television and the financial community. In the early 1990s she became certified as a biofeedback clinician and worked with adults having pain or stress-related conditions and children with attention deficit disorders.

Pink Balloons and Other Deadly Things introduced Carrie Carlin, biofeedback clinician and almost-divorced mom, whose already stressful life becomes nightmarish when her soon-to-be-ex's intended turns up dead, with Carrie topping the suspect list.

Of her work one reviewer wrote: "Nancy Tesler is the author of one of the most original and brilliant series featuring an amateur female detective. To the format of the traditional detective novel Tesler brings emotional integrity and a deep sense of humor that few other writers possess." Publishers Weekly called Carrie "a clever, slightly neurotic heroine, the kind that Susan Isaacs might put in a mystery," and still another wrote "if you like lovable, dysfunctional characters and a story that includes murder and mayhem, you will be mad about this series."

Nancy has just completed Book One of a new amateur sleuth series and a stand alone romantic suspense.