Lisa Scot­to­line is the New York Times-best­selling author of thir­ty-two nov­els. She has thir­ty mil­lion copies of her books in print in the Unit­ed States and has been pub­lished in thir­ty-five coun­tries. Scot­to­line also writes a week­ly col­umn with her daugh­ter for The Philadel­phia Inquir­er. Lisa has served as Pres­i­dent of Mys­tery Writ­ers of Amer­i­ca and has taught a course she devel­oped, ​“Jus­tice in Fic­tion” at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadel­phia area.