KAREN DONAHUE

Karen Donahue¿s love of the sea (boater, surfer) took her to the beautiful coast of Santa Barbara where she received her doctorate at the University of California. An expert in International law, she is a professor and chair of the Criminology Department of a Southern California university. Her research and lecturing have taken her to Europe and Africa. As a visiting researcher at the United Nations in Geneva, she has worked with the historical documents of monarchs, governments, and business leaders within their archives. Her experience as a criminology professor led her to a second career of writing mystery novels.