Liz Alterman is the author of The Perfect Neighborhood, He’ll Be Waiting, and Sad Sacked. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, and other outlets. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three sons where she spends most days microwaving the same cup of coffee and looking up synonyms. When Liz isn’t writing, she’s reading.

Award-winning author Terry Shames is the author of the Samuel Craddock Mysteries and Jessie Madison Thrillers. As well as winning the Macavity Award for Best First Novel, the first Samuel Craddock book, A Killing at Cotton Hill, was also shortlisted for The Strand Critics Award, and The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake won the RT Critics Award for Best Mystery. Terry’s books have also been shortlisted for Left Coast Crime Awards for Best Mystery.Terry grew up in Texas, and is both a member of Sisters in Crime and on the board of Mystery Writers of America.

Ellen Crosby is the author of the Mary Higgins Clark Award-nominated Wine Country mysteries, the Sophie Medina mysteries, and Moscow Nights, a standalone. Previously she was a freelance feature writer for The Washington Post, Moscow correspondent for ABC News Radio, and an economist at the US Senate. She lives in Virginia.