Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella write a column, Chick Wit, for the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Arts & Entertainment section. Lisa is a New York Times best-selling novelist with some 30 million copies in print worldwide. She won the Edgar Award for suspense writing, and is the president of the Mystery Writers of America. She is a Philadelphia native who lives in Chester County with four dogs, two cats and several chickens.