Jenny Kales

Jenny Kales is the author of The Callie’s Kitchen Mystery Series, featuring Calliope Costas, Greek-American food business owner and feisty amateur sleuth. Kales’ marriage into a Greek-American Midwestern family inspired the series and the setting of the story, “Crystal Bay,” is inspired by a favorite family vacation spot – Wisconsin’s beautiful Geneva Lakes.\n\nJenny is an avid reader, cook and baker and she’s addicted to mystery TV, especially anything on Masterpiece Mystery or BBC America. A member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, she lives just outside of Chicago with her husband, two daughters and one cute but demanding Yorkshire terrier. \n