Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey. She has won major crime fiction awards for her Stephanie Plum novels.

Zoe Sharp was born in Nottinghamshire, but spent most of her formative years living on a catamaran on the northwest coast of England. After a promising start at a private girls’ school, she opted out of mainstream education at the age of twelve in favour of correspondence courses at home. She wrote her first (unpublished)(…)

Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 22 novels. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter Francesca Serritella for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “”Chick Wit”” which is a witty and fun take on life from a woman’s perspective. These stories, along with many other never-before-published stories,(…)