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Megan Abbott is an American author of crime fiction novels. She grew up watching movies from the ’30s and ’40s, perhaps leading to her interest in crime fiction. In her crime fiction, Megan takes the classic sub-genres of crime fiction (such as hardboiled) and gives them a feminine twist. Megan earned her Ph.D. in English […]

Zoraida Cordova is an American author of urban fantasy and romance novels, often for young adults. Zoraida was born in Ecuador, but grew up in New York. She learned how to speak English by watching The Little Mermaid and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker over and over. Her novel Labyrinth Lost was named a Best Book of […]

Julia Dahl is an American author of mystery/thriller novels. She writes the Rebekah Roberts series. Julia has been writing about crime since 2004 when she was sent by Seventeen to cover a murder of a girl at the hands of her mother. Additionally, she has worked as a freelance reporter for the New York Post, […]

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American author of literary fiction. He graduated from Princeton with a philosophy degree in 1999. He has taught fiction at Yale University and (at the time of this writing) is a writer-in-residence at New York University for its graduate creative writing program. His novel Everything is Illuminated was adapted to […]

Joel Dicker is a Swiss author. He is from the French-speaking city of Geneva, Switzerland. Joel earned his Masters of Law from the University of Geneva in 2010. He is no stranger to North America; growing up, he spent his summer vacations in New England.

Mat Coward is a British writer of crime fiction, science fiction, and children’s fiction novels. He also writes a gardening column for the Morning Star newspaper. He has been referred to by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine as “one of the funniest writers in the history of crime fiction.” He lives in Somerset, England.

Ian Caldwell is an American author of literary fiction novels. He graduated alongside collaborator and childhood friend Dustin Thomason from the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. He graduated from Princeton University in 1998. He lives with his wife and son in Vienna, Virginia.

Hillary Greene is the protagonist in a series of crime thriller novels by English author Faith Martin. DI Hillary Greene is based out of Oxfordshire, with a focus on the north part of the county rather than the city itself.

Faith Martin is a pen name of English novelist Jacquie Walton, who writes crime thriller novels under this pseudonym. She writes the Hillary Greene series. Other pen names she has used include Maxine Barry, Joyce Cato and Jessie Daniels. Faith was born in Oxford, and she sets most of her crime thrillers in that vicinity. […]

Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) was a Japanese author of literary fiction novels. He was a rare Japanese Catholic, having converted when he was 11. Shusaku earned his BA from Keio University in French literature. A common theme of his work is the failure of the Japanese to embrace Christianity. Among the awards he received were the […]