Diane Fanning is the Edgar® Award?nominated, national bestselling author of twelve true crime books?Sleep My Darlings, Her Deadly Web, Mommy's Little Girl, A Poisoned Passion, The Pastor's Wife, Out There, Under the Knife, Baby Be Mine, Gone Forever, Written in Blood, Into the Water, and Through the Window?as well as the Lucinda Pierce Mysteries and a World War II mystery, Scandal in the Secret City.

She has appeared on numerous network and cable news shows and radio stations across the United States and Canada, including TODAY, 48 Hours, 20/20, Forensic Files, Snapped, bio., Investigation Discovery, E!, and the BBC. Raised in Baltimore, she now lives in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bedford, Virginia.