Author: Sujata Massey is the author of fourteen novels, two novellas and numerous short stories that have been published in eighteen countries. Her novels have won the Agatha, Lefty, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark prizes and been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, and Harper Lee literary awards. Sujata writes mystery and suspense fiction set in pre-Independence India, as well as a modern mystery series set in Japan. Born in England to parents from India and Germany, Sujata was raised primarily in St. Paul, Minnesota, although her home for almost thirty years has been Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a B.A. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and wrote features for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper before becoming a novelist.

Moderator: Smita Harish Jain is a two-time International Thriller Writers Award nominee for Best Short Story and has appeared in the Ellery Queen Top-10 Readers Poll. She has more than 20 short stories published or accepted for publication in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and in anthologies for Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Akashic Noir. She grew up in Mumbai, India and now works as a university professor, both of which inform her crime fiction.