Annie Hansen is a partner with Hansen Search Group, a staffing firm she co-founded with her husband and business partner, Brent Hansen. She was named the winner of the Helen McCloy Mystery Writers of America Scholarship for her submission of her first novel, Give Me Chocolate. Annie is the author of the Kelly Clark Mystery Series (Give Me ChocolateBean in Love) and can be reached through her website. She lives with her family in the western suburbs of Chicago.