Cathryn is the bestselling author of sixteen psychological thrillers and the ALEXANDRA MALLORY series, featuring a sociopath you can't help but love. Cathryn Grant's fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines, The Shroud Quarterly Journal, and been anthologized in The Best of Every Day Fiction and You, Me & A Bit of We. Her short story, "I Was Young Once", received an honorable mention in the 2007 Zoetrope All-story Short Fiction contest. Her psychological suspense fiction reveals the motives and desires that lead to suburban crime. She's obsessed with the "why" behind human behavior. In real crime, too many times, the why is left unanswered. Cathryn's fiction tells the stories of ordinary people driven to commit murder.Cathryn also writes ghost stories-The Haunted Ship Trilogy and the Madison Keith series of novellas. When she's not writing, she's usually reading fiction, walking on the beach, or playing golf, trying desperately to avoid hitting her ball in the sand or the water. She lives on the Central California Coast with her husband and her cat, Cleopatra.