Susan Spann is the author of seven novels in the bestselling Hiro Hattori mystery series. She was the 2015 Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year, and has a degree in Asian Studies, as well as a lifelong love of Japanese history, food and culture. She currently lives in Tokyo, where she is working on an upcoming nonfiction book about mountain climbing in Japan as well as the next installment in the Hiro Hattori mystery series.