The Ohio Connection

Karen Harper was born in Toledo, Ohio.
She received her Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees from The Ohio State University, where she also taught as a graduate student.
Karen taught English at Whetstone High School in Columbus from 1970 to 1975.
She was then chairperson for the Department of English at Westerville North High School for 10 years, from 1975 to 1985.
Karen Harper dedicated her first Elizabeth I Mystery, The Poyson Garden, to her students at Whetstone High School.
Several of her contemporary suspense novels take place in Ohio Amish country: the trilogy of Dark Road Home, Dark Harvest and The Dark Angel takes place in Holmes County, as do Down to the Bone and Shaker Run.
Central Ohio Fiction Writers’ Web site (http://www.cofw.org/Authors_Pages/Karen_Harper/karen_harper.html) describes Shaker Run: "Kate Marburn thought she had found a safe haven living and working in a historic Ohio Shaker village, but she's dead wrong."