3/31/08 PANEL BIOS

George Anastasia, veteran Philadelphia journalist and True Crime author, has been writing about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years. His New York Times bestseller The Last Gangster (ReganBooks/Harper Collins, March 2004), chronicles the demise of the Philadelphia mob. Jimmy Breslin called Blood and Honor (William Morrow & Co., 1991) "the best gangster book ever written."
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Cordelia Frances Biddle's The Conjurer (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007) is a series debut and an IMBA best-seller set in early Victorian-era Philadelphia. A former actress, Cordelia also writes The Crossword Mystery Series (Berkley/Prime Crime) with her husband Steve Zettler under the nom de plume Nero Blanc.
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Solomon Jones is the bestselling author of C.R.E.A.M. (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006), Ride Or Die (St. Martin's Press, 2004), The Bridge (St. Martin's Press, 2003), and Pipe Dream (Random House, 2001). Identified as a "talent to watch" by Publishers Weekly, Jones focuses on gritty urban crime set in Philadelphia.
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William Lashner is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Killer's Kiss (William Morrow, 2007, his seventh legal thriller featuring Philadelphia D.A. Victor Carl. Library Journal dubbed Lashner, "the east coast version of Michael Connelly." Before becoming a novelist, Lashner was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
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Nancy Martin's bestselling Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series follows the misadventures of three former Main Line heiresses who are forced to w-o-r-k for a living. How to Murder a Millionaire (Signet, 2002) was nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery of 2002. The newest in the series, Murder Melts in Your Mouth (Signet, 2008) is hot off the press.
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