Karin Slaughter is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the Will Trent and Grant County series and the instantNew York Timesbestselling standalones, Cop Town and Pretty Girls. There are more than 35 million copies of her books in print around the world.

Kathleen Early is an award-winning television, film, and stage actress living in Los Angeles. Originally from Euless, Texas, she studied at the University of Oklahoma, the Oxford School of Drama, and the Actors Theatre of Louisville before moving to New York City. There she understudied Rebecca Gayheart in "Steel Magnolias" on Broadway and toured nationally with Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin in the Broadway production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Her television credits include recurring roles on "Miami Medical" and "Grey's Anatomy".