Jayne Brewster is the cozy mystery pen name of Candice Gilmer, who has written 40+ romance novels and spent thirty years behind the chair as a hairdresser. Turns out, thirty years of cutting, coloring, and listening to people's secrets makes you pretty good at plotting murders. A lifelong reader of cozy mysteries and romance, she's now writing the kinds of stories she's always loved — small towns, big personalities, and the occasional dead body. Her debut series, The Monet, Kansas Mysteries, follows hairdresser Blair Cole as she solves crimes, navigates her ex-husband, and proves that nobody knows a town better than the person holding the scissors.