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Paula Bernstein is a New York native, who migrated to Los Angeles to attend graduate school in Chemistry. She acquired a PhD, an exceptionally nice husband, and the ability to synthesize compounds useful for poisoning.

Not long afterwards, she escaped her laboratory and attended medical school. Like her series heroine, Hannah Kline, Paula spent her professional life practicing Obstetrics and Gynecology. When she developed an irresistible desire for an uninterrupted nights’ sleep, she retired from her full time practice, and reinvented herself as a writer of medical mysteries.

She is the author of the eight volume Hannah Kline mystery series. Her short stories have been published in the collection Potpourri as well as in two Sisters in Crime Anthologies,LAst Resort and Avenging Angelinos. She has served as the President of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime and as Chair of the 2023 California Crime Writers Conference.