JONATHAN KELLERMAN is one of the world’s most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to numerous bestselling tales of suspense (which have been translated into two dozen languages), including the Alex Delaware novels; The Butcher’s Theater, a story of serial killing in Jerusalem; and Billy Straight, featuring Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor. He is also the author of numerous essays, short stories, and scientific articles, two children’s books, and three volumes of psychology, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards, and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children.

FAYE KELLERMAN’s first novel, The Ritual Bath, won the Macavity Award and generated the internationally bestselling Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series. She has also written the Las Vegas thriller Moon Music and a historical novel featuring William Shakespeare, The Quality of Mercy. Faye Kellerman’s short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including Deadly Allies, A Woman’s Eye, A Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries, Mothers and Daughters, Murder for Love, and The Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. Her nonfiction essay “How I Caught a Mugger” appeared in the bestselling compilation Small Miracles. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jonathan Kellerman, and a rotating assortment of their children.