MARCIA MULLER is the New York Times bestselling creator of private investigator Sharon McCone, and coauthors the Carpenter and Quincannon Mysteries with Bill Pronzini. The author of more than thirty-five novels, Muller received the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award in 2005.

Bill Pronzini's novel, Snowbound, received the Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. A Wasteland of Strangers was nominated for best crime novel of 1997 by both the Mystery Writers of America and the International Crime Writers Association; in addition to six Edgar Award nominations, Pronzini has received three Shamus Awards, two for best novel, and the Lifetime Achievement Award. He lives in northern California with his wife, the crime novelist Marcia Muller.