David Bell is a USA Today bestselling, award-winning author whose work has been translated into multiple foreign languages. He's currently a professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he directs the MFA program. Peter Blauner is the Edgar-winning, New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including Slow Motion Riot and The Intruder. He was coexecutive producer of the CBS show Blue Bloods from 2015–2018. C. J. Box is the author of twenty Joe Pickett novels, five stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38, and has been a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. His books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. Ken Bruen was born in Galway, Ireland in 1951. The award-winning author of sixteen novels, he is the editor of Dublin Noir, and spent twenty-five years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia, and South America. He now lives in Galway City. Reed Farrel Coleman, author of the New York Times bestselling Robert B. Parker's Colorblind, has been called a "hard-boiled poet" by NPR's Maureen Corrigan. He has published more than twenty-five novels. A four-time winner of the Shamus Award, he has also won the Anthony, Macavity, Barry, and Audie awards. Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award–winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award–winning film starring Tom Hanks. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1947. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories. He received the best novel Edgar for The Chatham School Affair, the Martin Beck Award, the Herodotus Prize for best historical short story, and the Barry for best novel. Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling author of over thirty-five novels and three collections of short stories. His first book featuring Lincoln Rhyme, The Bone Collector, was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Visit Jeffery at jefferydeaver.com. Loren D. Estleman is the author of more than eighty novels, including the Amos Walker, Page Murdock, and Peter Macklin series. Winner of three Shamus Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, four Spur Awards, and many other literary prizes, he lives outside of Detroit with his wife, author Deborah Morgan. William Link, an author, screenwriter, and producer, created the character of Lieutenant Columbo with Richard Levinson in the early 1960s. The character was made famous on television by Peter Falk, whose comic timing brought life to the idiosyncratic homicide detective. Link is also the author of The Columbo Collection. Laura Lippman is the New York Times bestselling author of Lady in the Lake and the Tess Monaghan novels. Lippman has won more than twenty awards for her crime fiction, including the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Strand Critics Awards. Anne Perry is the New York Times bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Tide Rising and An Echo of Murder, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Murder on the Serpentine and Treachery at Lancaster Gate. Perry lives in Los Angeles. Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) sold hundreds of millions of books. He introduced iconic detective Mike Hammer to readers in 1947 with I, The Jury, and was named a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master in 1995. Andrew Taylor is the award-winning author of a number of crime novels, including the groundbreaking Roth Trilogy, which was adapted into the acclaimed TV drama Fallen Angel, and the historical crime novels The Ashes of London, The Silent Boy, The Scent of Death, and The American Boy.