Inherit the Dead

About the Authors

MARK BILLINGHAM is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. His series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of the Year Award and been nominated for seven CWA Daggers. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. A television series based on the Thorne novels starred David Morrissey as Tom Thorne. Mark Billingham’s latest novel is The Dying Hours.

LAWRENCE BLOCK has been writing for so long he’s accumulated several life achievement awards — his colleagues’ gentle way of telling him his future lies largely in the past. One can but hope he’ll get the message. Meanwhile his latest book is Hit Me, the author’s fifth novel about that wistful urban lonely guy, Keller, philatelist and hit man.

C. J. BOX is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels including the award-winning Joe Pickett series. Box has won the Edgar Award for Best Novel as well as the Anthony, Macavity, Barry, and Calibre .38 awards. His novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Box lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming. His most recent novels are Breaking Point and The Highway.

KEN BRUEN is the author of over twenty novels, and has a doctorate in metaphysics.

ALAFAIR BURKE is the bestselling author of nine novels, including If You Were Here, Long Gone, and the Ellie Hatcher series. A former prosecutor and graduate of Stanford Law School, she now teaches criminal law and lives in Manhattan.

STEPHEN L. CARTER is the bestselling author of five novels and eight non-fiction books. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale, where he has taught for more than thirty years. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School and lives near New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife, Enola Aird.

LEE CHILD has been a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student. He is the author of the Jack Reacher novels. He was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit www.leechild.com for more information on his books, short stories, and Jack Reacher, the movie starring Tom Cruise.

MARCIA CLARK, former O. J. Simpson prosecutor, has published three novels that feature Los Angeles special trials prosecutor Rachel Knight: Guilt by Association, Guilt by Degrees, Killer Ambition, which is due out in June 2013. Marcia is a frequent legal commentator on television and radio, and her books have been optioned by TNT for a one-hour drama series, currently in development. Marcia is attached as an executive producer. She’s currently at work on her fourth novel.

MARY HIGGINS CLARK’s books are worldwide bestsellers. In the United States alone, her books have sold more than one hundred million copies. Her latest suspense novel, Daddy’s Gone A Hunting, was published by Simon & Schuster in April 2013. She is an active member of Literacy Volunteers. She is the author of more than thirty suspense novels, three collections of short stories, an historical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. She is coauthor with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, of five suspense novels. Two of her novels were made into feature films and many of her other works into television films. Mary Higgins Clark is married to John Conheeney and they live in Saddle River, New Jersey.

MAX ALLAN COLLINS is the author of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel Road to Perdition, made into the Academy Award — winning film. His other credits include such comics as Batman, Dick Tracy, and his own Ms. Tree; film scripts for HBO and Lifetime TV; and the Shamus Award — winning Nathan Heller detective novels. His tie-in novels include the bestsellers Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster, and he is working with the Mickey Spillane estate to finish a number of works by Mike Hammer’s creator. He lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, Barb, with whom he writes the popular “Trash ’n’ Treasures” mystery series (Antiques Roadkill).

JOHN CONNOLLY was born in Dublin, Ireland, and is the writer of the Charlie Parker series of mystery novels, the latest of which is The Wrath of Angels; the stand-alone novel The Book of Lost Things; and the Samuel Johnson stories for younger readers. He is also the host of the 2XM radio show ABC to XTC, which allows him to indulge his love of the music of 1977 to 1989.

JAMES GRADY’s first novel became the Robert Redford movie Three Days of the Condor. Grady has received Italy’s Raymond Chandler Medal, France’s Grand Prix du Roman Noir and Japan’s Baka-Misu literature award. In 2008, London’s Daily Telegraph named Grady as one of “50 crime writers to read before you die.”

HEATHER GRAHAM is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than a hundred novels, including suspense, paranormal, historical, and mainstream Christmas fare. She lives in Miami, Florida, an easy shot down to the Keys, where she can indulge in her passion for diving. Travel, research, and ballroom dancing also help keep her sane; she is the mother of five, and also resides with two dogs and two cats. She is CEO of Slush Pile Productions, a recording company and production house for various charity events.

BRYAN GRULEY’s Starvation Lake series has been nominated for an Edgar and won the Anthony and Barry awards. Gruley also is a Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist for Bloomberg News in Chicago, where he lives with his wife, Pam. He’s working on his fourth novel.

CHARLAINE HARRIS, author of more than thirty novels, is best known for her novels about telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. A daughter of the South, she now lives in Texas.

VAL McDERMID escaped from a mining community in Scotland to Oxford University. She abandoned an award-winning career in journalism for fiction and has published twenty-six crime novels. Her bestselling books are translated into more than forty languages and she has won many awards including the Gold Dagger, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Lambda Pioneer Award, and the Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement. She lives in the north of England with her American wife, her son, and their dog.

S. J. ROZAN, the Edgar-winning author of fourteen novels and dozens of short stories, was born in the Bronx and lives in Manhattan. Her latest novel, as half of the writing team of Sam Cabot, is Blood of the Lamb.

JONATHAN SANTLOFER is the author of five novels, including The Death Artist, which has been translated into eighteen languages and the Nero Award — winning Anatomy of Fear. He is the coeditor, contributor, and illustrator of The Dark End of the Street; editor and contributor of L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories; and editor, contributor, and illustrator of Akashic Books’ The Marijuana Chronicles. Also an artist, Santlofer has been the recipient of two National Endowment for Arts grants and sits on the board of Yaddo, the oldest arts organization in the United States. He lives in New York where he is at work on a new novel.

DANA STABENOW has written twenty-nine novels, many short stories, has edited anthologies and wrote the “Alaska Traveler” column for five years for Alaska magazine. She lives in Alaska.

LISA UNGER is a New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author whose novels have sold more than one and a half million copies in the United States and have been translated into twenty-six languages. Her novels have been hailed as “masterful” (St. Petersburg Times), “sensational” (Publishers Weekly), with “gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose” (Associated Press). Her next novel, In the Blood, will be released by Touchstone in January 2014. She lives in Florida with her husband and daughter.

SARAH WEINMAN is news editor for Publishers Marketplace and the editor of Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories From the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense (Penguin). She writes the “Crimewave” column for the National Post and contributes to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Observer, Slate, and other publications. Her fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and several anthologies. Weinman lives in Brooklyn.