Maddie Dayais a talented amateur chef and holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University.aAn Agatha-nominated and Amazon-bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writesaaward-winning short crime fiction, which has appeared in a number of juried anthologies.aShe lives with her beau and three cats in Massachusetts, where she's currently working on her next Country Store mystery when she isn't cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.