The Best American Crime Reporting 2008

ABOUT THE EDITORS

JONATHAN KELLERMAN received his Ph.D. in psychology at the age of twenty-four. In 1985, his first novel, When the Bough Breaks, became a New York Times bestseller, was produced as a TV movie, and won the Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony awards for best first novel. Since then, he has written twenty-seven bestselling crime novels, including, most recently, Compulsion.

OTTO PENZLER is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop, the founder of the Mysterious Press, the creator of Otto Penzler Books, and the editor of many books and anthologies, including the annual Best American Mystery Stories.

THOMAS H. COOK is the author of twenty-one books-two works of nonfiction and nineteen novels, including The Chatham School Affair, which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, and the recent Master of the Delta.