Author Bios

Ruth Ware is a British author who has established herself as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary psychological suspense. Born in 1977 and raised in Sussex, England, Ware studied English literature at the University of Manchester before working as a bookseller, waitress, and journalist. These varied life experiences deeply inform her fiction, which…

Amanda Skenandore is an American author known for her meticulously researched historical fiction that explores underrepresented voices and overlooked chapters of American history. Drawing on her background in nursing and her passion for social history, Skenandore brings vivid authenticity to her portrayals of nineteenth-century America, particularly in the American West and the fraught intersection of…

Colleen Hoover is an American author of romance and new adult fiction who has become one of the most commercially successful and culturally influential novelists of the early twenty-first century. Known affectionately as “CoHo” by her devoted fanbase, she occupies a remarkable position in contemporary publishing: a self-published debut author turned global bestseller whose books…

Freida McFadden is a bestselling American author of psychological thrillers and twisty domestic suspense whose books have dominated bestseller lists and captured a massive global readership with their addictive plotting, unreliable narrators, and dark explorations of the hidden lives of ordinary people. A physician by training and profession, she brings to her fiction a clinical…

Nita Prose is a Canadian author and publishing industry veteran whose debut novel introduced one of the most beloved and distinctive protagonists in contemporary crime fiction: Molly Gray, the fastidious, socially unconventional, and utterly charming Maid of the Regency Grand Hotel. Prose’s warm, clever, and emotionally generous fiction has won a devoted readership and established…

Tana French is an Irish-American crime writer widely regarded as one of the finest authors working in the mystery and literary thriller genres today. Her Dublin Murder Squad series — a sequence of interconnected standalone novels set in the Irish police detective world — has won every major award the crime fiction world offers, earned…