Christy Barritt's mystery and romantic suspense novels have sold half a million copies, won the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Suspense and Mystery, and were twice nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award. Christy was born in Virginia and, while she has been writing since she was very young, she's also sung at local coffeehouses and was a newspaper journalist for ten years. She is most well known for her Love Inspired Suspense novels, as well as her Squeaky Clean Mystery series.