*Dukess, Karen: - Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party and Welcome to Murder Week *. Karen has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian studies from Brown University an...

*Dukess, Karen: - Karen Dukess is the author of The Last Book Party and Welcome to Murder Week *. Karen has been a newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations. She has a degree in Russian studies from Brown University and a master's in journalism from Columbia University. She lives outside of New York City and in Truro on Cape Cod, where she interviews some of today's most acclaimed writers as host of the Castle Hill Author Talks for the Truro Center for the Arts. Find out more at KarenDukess.com.