William Kent Krueger is the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), and the original audio novella The Levee, as well as nineteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Lightning Strike and Fox Creek.

He lives in the Twin Cities with his family.

Stuart Neville's debut novel, The Twelve (published in the US as The Ghosts of Belfast), won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was picked as one of the top crime novels of 2009 by both the New York Times and the LA Times. He has been shortlisted for various awards, including the MWA Edgar, CWA Dagger, Theakstons Old Peculier Novel of the Year, Barry, Macavity, Dilys awards, as well as the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year.

He has since published nine more critically acclaimed books, two of which were under the pen name Haylen Beck, as well as a short story collection, The Traveller and Other Stories.

Stuart's novels have been translated into various languages, including German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Swedish, Greek and more. The French edition of The Twelve won Le Prix Mystere de la Critique du Meilleur Roman Etranger and Grand Prix du Roman Noir Etranger.

Randy Wayne White is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Doc Ford series. In 2011, Randy was named a Florida Literary Legend by the Florida Heritage Society. A fishing and nature enthusiast, he has written extensively for National Geographic Adventure, Men's Journal, and Men's Health.

He lives on Sanibel Island, Florida, where he was a light-tackle fishing guide for many years, and spends much of his free time windsurfing, playing baseball, and hanging out at Doc Ford's Rum Bar & Grille. Sharks Incorporated is Randy Wayne White's first middle-grade novel.

Reed Farrel Coleman, called "a hard-boiled poet" by NPR's Maureen Corrigan and the "noir poet laureate" in the Huffington Post, is the Edgar-nominated author of twenty-five novels and three novellas, including the critically acclaimed Moe Prager series.

A three-time winner of the Shamus Award, he has also won the Anthony, Macavity, Barry, and Audie awards.

Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction, and his story At the Laundromat won the 2006 Short Story Contest in the The Seattle Review.

Terrence P. McCauley is an award-winning writer of westerns, crime fiction and thrillers. His western Where the Bullets Fly won the True West Magazine Award for Best Mass Market Novel for 2019. He is the author of the acclaimed University Series, which includes The Fairfax Incident. He has also written two award-winning novels set in 1930 New York City-Prohibition and Slow Burn.