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The Authors Are…

...MAX ALLAN Collins, two-time winner of the PWA “Shamus” Best Novel award for his historical thrillers True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991), featuring Chicago P.I. Nate Heller. In 2002 he received the Herodotus “Lifetime Achievement” Award from the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society. An MW A Edgar nominee in both fiction and nonfiction categories, Max is a leading writer of movie and TV “tie-in” novels, including the New York Times bestseller, Saving Private Ryan (1998) and the CSI novels. In 1995, he wrote and directed the thriller, Mommy; a sequel, Mommy's Day followed; and his third indie feature, Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market, is on DVD. Max’s graphic novel, Road to Perdition (1998), is the basis of the 2002 DreamWorks motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law, directed by Sam Mendes.

...and Barbara Collins, the author of numerous short stories, with appearances in such top anthologies as Murder Most Delicious, Women on the Edge, Murder for Mother, Murder for Father, and the bestselling Cat Crimes series. Her stories have been selected for inclusion in the first three volumes of The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. Her short story collection, Too Many Tomcats (2000), has been followed by a collection of stories with her husband Max, Murder His and Hers (2001), and she was co-editor of the anthology Lethal Ladies (1997). The Collins’s first collaborative novel, Regeneration (1999), was a paperback bestseller. Barbara worked as production manager on the Mommy movies and line producer on Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market.

Barbara and Max Collins live in Muscatine, Iowa; their son Nathan is a Computer Science major at the University of Iowa.