Catherine Bator was born in Hollywood and once worked in the steno pool at MGM. She enjoyed a short but eventful show business career that took her to Paramount, Universal and Sam Goldwyn studios. She now lives in San Francisco with her husband, Frank, and a naughty wire fox terrier named Buster Keaton. You can often find her enjoying a vintage cocktail in one of San Francisco's historic watering holes. A GOOD, HARD SLAP is her debut novel and the origin story for the Nick and Gracie detective series. To learn more about the author, visit www.catherinebator.com. If you'd like to escape to the Jazz Age with Catherine, visit www.JazzAgeJunkie.com. "Too much of anything is bad, but too much of the Jazz Age is just right." Apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
