Lisa Scot­to­line is the #1 best­selling and Edgar Award-win­ning author of thir­ty-five nov­els. She has thir­ty mil­lion copies of her books in print and has been pub­lished in thir­ty-five coun­tries. Her books have been optioned for film and TV, and she has also co-authored humor­ous mem­oirs with her daugh­ter, Francesca Ser­ritel­la. A for­mer lawyer, Scot­to­line taught a course she devel­oped, ​“Jus­tice & Fic­tion,” at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Law School, her alma mater. She lives on a farm out­side Philadelphia.