Naomi Rand received her MFA from Columbia University. She has been awarded a grant in fiction from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. Her writing has appeared in Redbook, Parents, and Working Mother magazines. She wrote Baby Basics, a pregnancy guide, and pens a review column for the Boston Globe Sunday Book Review. She is the author of two other Emma Price mysteries: Stealing for a Living and The One That Got Away. She grew up in New York and lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and two children.