LITERALLY LITERARY THRILLERS – FICTION

A.J. FINN is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the global phenomenon The Woman in the Window, which was published in more than 40 languages and is the basis for the hit film starring Amy Adams.

ELAINE VIETS has written 35 mysteries in four series; her latest is A Scarlet Death, an Angela Richman Death Investigator mystery (Severn House, London). No doubt her time at St. Louis University’s School of Medicine's MedicoLegal Death Investigators Training Course informs her work. Deal with the Devil and 13 Short Stories is her collection of short stories, and Sex and Death on the Beach will be the first book in her new Florida mystery series, debuting next fall. Viets is a recipient of Agatha, Anthony, and Lefty Awards, and she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Mystery Conference.

JENNIFER CROFT won a Guggenheim Fellowship for The Extinction of Irena Rey: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing), the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Homesick: A Memoir (Unnamed Press), and the International Booker Prize for her translation of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights (Riverhead Books). She is the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery (Charco Press), Romina Paula’s August (Feminist Press), Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay (Vintage Espanol), and Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob: A Novel (Riverhead Books). Croft also received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles.