Hank Phillippi Ryan is USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers, winning five Agathas and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. As a television investigative reporter in Boston, she has also won 37 EMMY awards. Her legal thriller The Murder List won this year’s Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Year. Her current novel is the psychological standalone The First to Lie, a nominee for the prestigious Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Awards. It received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which calls it "Stellar.” Her upcoming thriller is HER PERFECT LIFE (Forge Books, September 14) which received a starred review from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, which called it “A superlative thriller.”