Kate Collins is the author of the best-selling Flower Shop Mysteries.
[2] Kate Collins, an Indiana native, graduated from Purdue University with a master's degree in education.
[3] She taught elementary school for six years, but after the birth of her first child, gave up her teaching career to pursue a writing career.
[4] After writing short humorous stories for children's magazines and working part-time as a legal secretary,[5] she sold her first historical romance novel in 1995.
Some of her books were adapted for television as the Flower Shop Mysteries in 2016,[6] starring Brooke Shields as her florist/detective Abby Knight.