

A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood.

But Desiree’s half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime. Like A Sister When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Sisters in Crime and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color.

Prior to writing novels, Kellye spent eight years working in Hollywood, including a stint writing for Cold Case. Kellye Garrett (she/her) is the acclaimed author of Hollywood Homicide, which won the Agatha, Anthony, Lefty and Independent Publisher “IPPY” awards for best first novel and was named one of BookBub’s Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time, as well as Hollywood Ending, which was featured on the TODAY show’s Best Summer Reads of 2019 and was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards.
