Sam Bond is the award-winning, best-selling author of The Cousins In Action series for middle grade readers and The Puccini Connection. Sam was raised in a small village in England before moving to the States twenty-five years ago. When not writing you can find Sam behind the lens of a camera, playing Chopin, or reading one of the many books suggested by the two book clubs she runs. Sam lives in Austin, Texas with her two daughters and a dog named Sausage. The Puccini Connection is the first book in the series The Milkwood Murders.