Jan Brogan, a freelance journalist,is a former staff writer at The Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island and The Worcester Telegram and Gazette in Massachusetts, and has worked as a correspondent for The Boston Globe. Her first novel, Final Copy, won the Drood Review of Mystery’s Editors’ Choice award. A Confidential Source, and Yesterday’s Fatal, were both chosen as “Killer Books” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Her latest mystery, Teaser, was published in December 2008 by St. Martin’s (Minataur).

A native of Clifton, New Jersey, she lives in Westwood, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.