LISA SCOTTOLINE is a "New York Times" bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of twenty-two novels. She has 30 million copies of her books in print in the United States, and she has been published in thirty-five countries. She has served as the president of Mystery Writers of America, and her thrillers have been optioned for television and film. She also writes a weekly humor column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for "The Philadelphia Inquirer," and those critically acclaimed stories have been adapted into a series of memoirs, the first of which is entitled, "Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog." She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array of disobedient pets.