M.A. Simonetti (born October 10) is a contemporary American author of the Malibu Mystery mystery novel series.The first novel in the series, The Fox's Watch, featuring forty-something firebrand Alana Fox, a socialite in Malibu, was published in 2010, and was one of Island Books' top sellers for the month of October 2010.The series' second novel, The Third Side, was completed in 2013.