Danielle Trussoni is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Ancestor, Angelology, and Angelopolis, all New York Times Notable Books, and The Puzzle Master, chosen by The Washington Post as one of their Best Thrillers of 2023. Her memoir, Falling Through the Earth was selected by The New York Times as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and winner of the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Fellowship, her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

Abby Endler is the creator of Crime by the Book, a crime fiction review website and Instagram account. By day, she is a Marketing Manager for a division of Penguin Random House.