Martin Limón spent twenty years in the US Army, ten of them in South Korea. While on active duty he began writing, using a Smith Corona portable that he purchased at the base PX. Four years later he published the first of more than fifty short stories. His 1992 debut novel, Jade Lady Burning, featured Eighth Army Criminal Investigation Agents George Sueño and Ernie Bascom and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, with thirteen more to follow. He wrote Nightmare Range, a short-story collection, and GI Confidential, about a series of bank robberies and murders in which an intrepid female tabloid reporter entices the unsuspecting into her rabbit hole of sex and treason.
Anne Perry launched her publishing career in 1979 with The Cater Street Hangman, the first of thirty-five novels featuring Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt. Her new series features Pitt’s son, Daniel, beginning with Twenty-One Days, with the third book in the series coming out in 2020. In 1990, she began the pre-Victorian William Monk series, thirty-three novels featuring homicide inspector Monk and Crimean War nurse Hester Latterly. She now has a thriller series featuring a young photographer in pre–World War II England, the first of which is Death in Focus. Anne won the Edgar for her short story “Heroes,” which inspired a five-book series set in World War I. Other eras, places, and situations are explored in her nearly ninety books and novellas and many short stories. Her nearly thirty million books have been printed in seventeen languages, with all titles still in print. The London Times selected her as one of its 100 Masters of Crime of the 20th Century.
Charles Todd (the mother-son writing team of Caroline and Charles) is the 2017 Mary Higgins Clark Award winner and author of the New York Times bestselling Inspector Ian Rutledge series (The Black Ascot, Morrow, February 2019) and the Bess Crawford series (A Cruel Deception, Morrow, September 2019) as well as two stand-alone titles and numerous short stories in many magazines and anthologies. They have been guests of honor at the Malice Domestic convention and have won Agatha, Macavity, and Barry awards. Charles and Caroline live on the East Coast. Visit www.CharlesTodd.com.
Jacqueline Winspear’s first novel, Maisie Dobbs, was a national bestseller and received an array of accolades, including New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003, Publishers Weekly Top Ten Mystery, and Book Sense Top Ten Selection. Maisie Dobbs was nominated for seven awards, including the Edgar for best novel and the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity Awards. Including The American Agent (2019), Jacqueline has now published fifteen national bestselling novels in the Maisie Dobbs series, including eleven New York Times bestsellers. Her stand-alone novel, The Care and Management of Lies, was also a New York Times and national bestseller and a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, Jacqueline published What Would Maisie Do?, a nonfiction book/journal featuring insights into the inspiration for readers’ favorite passages from the series. Jacqueline is also an essayist/journalist focusing on women’s history, work, and social issues.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
MELANIE ABRAMS
VICTORIA ZACKHEIM is the author of the novel The Bone Weaver and editor of seven anthologies. She adapted essays from her anthology The Other Woman to create a play that is frequently read as a fund-raiser for women’s shelters. Her play Entangled is in development. Victoria wrote the screenplay Maidstone and the documentary Where Birds Never Sang: The Story of Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camps, which aired nationwide on PBS. Victoria created Women’s Voices and is a frequent speaker and instructor at writing conferences and for women’s organizations in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Europe. She teaches creative nonfiction (Personal Essay/Memoir) in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. She is a freelance book editor of fiction and nonfiction and has contributed personal essays to many anthologies. Visit her at www.victoriazackheim.com.
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