Biographical Info Michelle Cox has always been obsessed with stories of the past and has spent a lifetime collecting them. She is the award-winning author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, a mystery/romance saga set in 1930s Chicago. Cox also pens the wildly popular, “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog chronicling the lives of Chicago’s forgotten residents. She lives in the northern suburbs of Chicago with her husband and three children and is hard at work on a spin-off of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series.