Rachel Howzell Hall is the critically acclaimed author of the bestselling thrillers, What

Fire Brings, What Never Happened, These Toxic Things, and the Los Angeles Times

Book Prize-nominated, Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller We Lie Here.

The first of her highly-anticipated fantasy series, The Last One, will be published in

December 2024.

She’s been nominated for a number of mystery awards, including the Anthony, Strand

and International Thriller Award, the Lefty, Barry and Shamus. She is also the author of

the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated And Now She’s Gone, and the author of

the Audible Originals bestseller See How They Run, and the Thriller Award- and Audie

Awards-nominated How It Ends, Rachel is a New York Times bestselling author of The

Good Sister with James Patterson. She’s also received acclaim for They All Fall Down

and for her Detective Elouise Norton series.

Her shorter works have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Shattering Glass

and Unoccupied Earth. “Breakdown in the Right Lane,” was published in Alta Magazine

and was selected as a Distinguished Story in Best American Mystery & Suspense for

2023. Her short story, CLOUT CHASER, was a nominee for the British Crime Writers

Association’s Short Story Dagger Award.

Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and

was a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National

Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor with Sisters

in Crime, Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers Programs.