Willyamae (is adopted)

From the time she learned to read at age four, she loved stories – the more complicated and mysterious, the better.  But by high school, she became convinced that her disposition was too sunny to inspire best-selling murder mysteries.  In college, she discovered a love of horticulture and was inspired to create her now infamous landscape architect detective Lucille Flowers.  And the sunny but deadly series has paid very well.
(a PJH story)