LAURA LIPPMAN, guest editor, is the best-selling author of eleven novels featuring Baltimore private detective Tess Monaghan, eight standalone novels (most recently After I’m Gone), and a short story collection. She has won numerous literary prizes for her work, including the Edgar, Anthony, Nero, Agatha, Gumshoe, Barry, and Macavity Awards.
OTTO PENZLER, series editor, is a renowned mystery editor, publisher, and columnist, and the owner of New York’s The Mysterious Bookshop, the oldest and largest bookstore dedicated solely to mystery fiction. He has edited more than fifty crime-fiction anthologies.