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- Dominic Piper is also a film and television writer, journalist, and script editor, and his Daniel Beckett PI series is noted for its wit and sensuality. While part of a series, *Death is the New Black* is presented as a standalone thriller. - Ava Glass is the pseudonym for Christi Daugherty, a former crime reporter who also worked in counterterrorism communications for the British government. *The Hiding Season* marks a shift for her from spy thrillers to a standalone psychological thriller. - Jennifer K. Breedlove's debut novel, *Murder Will Out*, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Claymore Award. - The plot of *The Hiding Season* is set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, where a woman taking care of ski lodges in the off-season discovers a dead body, which then disappears, leading the police to doubt her stability. - *Murder Will Out* is set on a fictional island off the coast of Maine and centers on an organist who returns after her godmother's death and begins to suspect it was no accident, with the local controversy surrounding a sprawling, haunted mansion. - Breedlove is a composer, conductor, and educator with degrees in piano, choral conducting, and theology, and she serves as an assistant conductor for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus. - The Daniel Beckett series, which includes *Death is the New Black*, follows an enigmatic London-based private investigator, with the series' debut novel being *Kiss Me When I'm Dead*. A short story prequel to the series, *Like Bottled Fire*, is set in Rome before Beckett becomes a private investigator.