Kate Collins | |
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Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Purdue University |
Period | 1995-present |
Genre | Romance, mystery, cozy mystery |
Children | 2 [1] |
Website | |
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Kate Collins is the author of the best-selling Flower Shop Mysteries. [2]
Kate Collins, an Indiana native, graduated from Purdue University with a master's degree in education. [3] She taught elementary school for six years, but after the birth of her first child, gave up her teaching career to pursue a writing career. [4] After writing short humorous stories for children's magazines and working part-time as a legal secretary, [5] she sold her first historical romance novel in 1995. Since then she has published seven historical romantic suspenses and eight mysteries
Her books have made The New York Times Best Seller list, Barnes & Noble mass market mystery best-sellers' lists, the Independent Booksellers' best-seller's lists, as well as booksellers' lists in Australia and England.
Some of her books were adapted for television as the Flower Shop Mysteries in 2016, [6] starring Brooke Shields as her florist/detective Abby Knight. [7]