Ragnar Jonasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the international bestselling Hulda series, the Dark Iceland series, and standalone crime fiction, with five million copies sold across 36 territories. Ragnar was also an executive producer of the CBS Studios TV series “The Darkness”, based on the first novel in his Hulda series, starring Lena Olin and directed by Lasse Hallström. His novel “Outside” is being developed for the screen by Ridley Scott.

Matt Witten is a TV writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows including House, Pretty Little Liars, Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Homicide, Women’s Murder Club, and Supernatural. His thriller novel The Necklace was an Amazon Editors’ Pick and has been optioned for film by Leonardo DiCaprio. His next thriller novel, 51%, comes out in February, and NBC has hired him to write the TV pilot. Matt wrote four amateur sleuth novels, including the Malice Domestic Award-winning Breakfast at Madeline’s, and has been nominated for two Edgars and an Emmy. He wrote the movie Drones, produced by Whitewater Films. His published stage plays include The Deal, Washington Square Moves, and The Ties That Bind.