Valerie Wilson Wesley is the bestselling author of the Tamara Hayle Mysteries, which include When Death Comes Stealing and Dying in the Dark. Among her award-winning novels are Playing My Mother's Blues, Always True to You in My Fashion, and Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do. She is also the author of the paranormal romances When the Night Whispers and The Moon Tells Secrets, written under the pen name Savanna Welles. A former executive editor of Essence magazine, she is married to noted screenwriter and playwright Richard Wesley, and has two adult daughters.