Sara Hoskinson Frommer, author of The Vanishing Violinist, Murder & Sullivan, Buried in Quilts, and Murder in C Major, lives in Bloomington, Indiana with her husband, Gabe, a professor of psychology at Indiana University. They have two adult sons, Charles and Joe.

A charter member of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra's viola section, Sara also has played for Gilbert & Sullivan productions in Bloomington and is a self-taught quilter whose Indiana Puzzle quilt will probably rot on the frames before she finishes it. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and serves on the board of directors of Mystery Writers of America.

Born in Chicago to Hoosier parents, she grew up in Hawaii and northern Illinois. She earned degrees in German from Oberlin College and Brown University, and studied briefly at the university in Tübingen, Germany. She taught German as a graduate teaching assistant at Brown. She has worked with a transportation economist, ethnologists, and foreign exchange students (having been an AFS exchange student to Germany herself). She was a writer and later senior editor at the Agency for Instructional Technology in Bloomington.

In addition to her mystery novels, she is the author of Kaleidoscope: A Collection of Stories, 16 very short, easy-to-read books of fiction for adult new readers, published by Laubach Literacy International's New Readers Press. Five of them are mysteries.

Joan Spencer, the viola-playing sleuth in Sara's novels, doesn't go looking for trouble, but it keeps falling in her lap. In Murder & Sullivan, the amateur musicians of Oliver, Indiana take on Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera Ruddigore. Joan witnesses the onstage murder of one of the "ghosts" from her spot in the pit orchestra. That's after she's rescued a child from a tornado.

In The Vanishing Violinist, Joan becomes involved with a missing Stradivarius, a disappearing violinist, and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis--the "Olympics of the violin."