THERE'S MORE! To My Readers: After months of vacillating like crazy, I've decided, for a variety of fairly substantial reasons, to take some time off from my writing. So although I'll miss Desiree—after all, she's been a big part of my life for more than fifteen years now—Murder Can Crash Your Party will be the final book in the Desiree Shapiro series. And I say this with more than a tinge of regret. I don't really have a timetable as to when I'll begin writing again. Or even what I'll end up writing, A short story? A stand-alone? Possibly even another series (although at present this seems less likely). I'll post the news here when (hopefully) I do get back into print. For now, though, I just want to say thank you. So many of you sent e-mails to tell me how much you enjoy the series. And I loved hearing from you. Some of you had suggestions or even criticisms. And that was fine, too. (I mean it!) You let me know what you were thinking which at times prompted me to do a little rethinking myself. So thank you again,