ELLE COSIMANO is an award-winning author. Her YA debut, Nearly Gone, was an Edgar Award finalist and winner of the International Thriller Award. Her novel Holding Smoke was a finalist for the International Thriller Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Time. Elle lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband, two sons, and her dog. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is her adult debut.
ALEX FINLAY is the pseudonym of an author who lives in Washington, D.C. Born in Opelika, Alabama, Alex's formative years were spent traversing the globe, from a tropical island in the Pacific to a small village in the UK to a remote region in the Far East. But it was on a vacation in Tulum, Mexico that Alex was inspired to write Every Last Fear.
CAMILLA STEN has been writing stories since she was a young girl and is famously one of the most important sounding boards for her crime-writing mother, Viveca Sten. In 2019, she stepped out of her mother’s shadow and published the now internationally acclaimed, hair-raising novel "The Lost Village." Rights for "The Lost Village" have been sold to seventeen territories around the world including film and TV. The book was one of seven shortlisted for the best translated crime award on ThrillZone.nl. An ever prolific author, Camilla is already working on her next psychologically intense suspense novel, all while travelling the world and putting the finishing touches on the first part of her dark and atmospheric YA series.
P.J. TRACY is the pseudonym of Traci Lambrecht, bestselling and award winning author of the Monkeewrench series. Lambrecht and her mother, P. J., wrote eight novels together as P. J. Tracy before P. J. passed away in 2016. Lambrecht has since continued the Monkeewrench series solo. She spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses, and graduated with a Russian Studies major from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she also studied voice. She now lives outside Minneapolis.
Alex Finlay is the author of the 2021 breakout novel,
Every Last Fear; the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery and Thriller,
The Night Shift; and the 2023 release and Library Reads Hall of Fame recipient,
What Have We Done. Alex’s novels are regularly on "best of the year" lists, have been translated into nineteen languages, and
Every Last Fear is in development for a series on a major streaming service.
What Have We Done also was recently acquired for the screen. Alex lives in Washington, DC and Virginia.
CAMILLA STEN (she/her) has been writing stories since she was a young girl. In 2019, Camilla published the now internationally acclaimed, hair-raising novel,
The Lost Village. Rights for
The Lost Village have been sold to nineteen territories around the world including film and TV. Her third novel for adults,
The Resting Place, was one of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022 and the same year Camilla was longlisted for the prestigious Viktor Crime Award in Germany. An ever prolific author, Camilla has released the third part in her YA series and continues to write new crime novels.
P. J. Tracy is the pseudonym of Traci Lambrecht, bestselling and award winning author of the Monkeewrench series. Lambrecht and her mother, P. J., wrote eight novels together as P. J. Tracy before P. J. passed away in 2016. Lambrecht has since continued the Monkeewrench series solo. She spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses, and graduated with a Russian Studies major from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she also studied voice. She now lives outside Minneapolis.
ELLE COSIMANO is a
New York Times and
USA Today bestselling author, an International Thriller Writers Award winner, and an Edgar Award nominee. Elle’s debut novel for adults,
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, kicked off a witty, fast-paced contemporary mystery series, which was a
People magazine pick and was named one of New York Public Library's Best Books of 2021. The third book in the series,
Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, was an instant
New York Times bestseller. In addition to writing novels for teens and adults, her essays have appeared in
HuffPost and
Time. Cosimano lives with her husband and two sons in Virginia.
