VICTORIA THOMPSON'S second historical mystery is MURDER ON ST. MARK'S PLACE, a March 2000 release from Berkley Prime Crime. This is the second novel in the Gaslight Mystery Series.

The first, MURDER ON ASTOR PLACE, is still available, if you'd like to find out how Sarah became involved in solving murders. In her previous life, Victoria Thompson was the best selling author of twenty historical romances, a career that gave her a great admiration for life in the Nineteenth Century.

In her home town in Pennsylvania, Victoria works as Division Director of the local March of Dimes office and serves as president of the board of directors of Family Services of Blair County. A popular speaker, she has given her day-long seminar on HOW TO WRITE POPULAR FICTION to writers' groups all over the United States and Canada and has also taught it at The Pennsylvania State University. She is a frequent speaker at writers' conferences across the country.

Victoria is a founding member and past president of Novelists, Inc., a national organization of published writers of popular fiction. She is also co-founder and past president of PENNWRITERS, a statewide writers' organization in Pennsylvania. Victoria also served on the board of directors of Romance Writers of America for four years and was co-founder and the first president of New Jersey Romance Writers.