Karen Black

Karen Black is a retired California Certified estate planning, trust, probate and elder law attorney. Her diverse background “before law,” included legal secretary, construction company estimator and office manager, award-winning Suzuki motorcycle dealer, and truck bumper and automotive parts salesperson. Her husband, Cole Black, spent almost seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and provided the information for the prison details of Code of Conduct. Captain Black was killed in 2007 when the private plane returning him from a speaking engagement in Roseburg, Oregon, ran out of gas and crashed near Bakersfield, CA, killing three people. Karen has four children from a previous marriage. Cole had two children from a previous marriage (one deceased). Together they have ten grandchildren or step-grandchildren (one deceased) and eight great-grandchildren. Code of Conduct was her first published novel. The 2020 version is a rewritten (vastly improved! - humbly she said) of the book she published in 2000, which still shows up on searches for Code of Conduct. It did have seven 5-star ratings, but please order only the 2020 version. She is also the co-author (co-author deceased) of a suspense thriller, TINMAN, due out in February.