Vallere, Diane: - National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes entertaining character-based mysteries with touches of history. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, she spent two decades in luxury retailing, before trading fashion accessories for accessories to murder. As past president of the national Sisters in Crime organization, she edited the Agatha-Award-winning essay collection PROMOPHOBIA: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction. Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since.