Denise Hamilton is a writer-journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times , Cosmopolitan , and The New York Times and is the author of five acclaimed Eve Diamond crime novels, Prisoner of Memory , Savage Garden , Last Lullaby , Sugar Skull , and The Jasmine Trade , all of which have been Los Angeles Times bestsellers. She is also the editor of and a contributor to the short story anthology Los Angeles Noir , winner of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Mystery of 2007. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young children. Visit her at www.denisehamilton.com.