Lorenzo Carcaterra is the author of fifteen books—A Safe Place, Sleepers, Apaches, Gangster, Street Boys, Paradise City, Chasers, Midnight Angels, The Wolf, Three Dreamers, and the Nonna Maria cozy trilogy. He was the managing editor for the five-season run of the CBS series Top Cops and was a writer/producer for Law & Order. He has contributed short stories to a number of anthologies and has published articles in National Geographic Traveler, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Reader’s Digest. He lives in New York City with his English Bulldog Rocco, travels to Italy as often as he can, spends fun times with his two grandsons, and works out every day—allowing him to drink more wine than he should in the evenings. He is currently at work on his next novel—The Collectors.