The Sleeping Dictionary

Sujata Massey is an Edgar; Anthony; and Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee, and winner of the Agatha and the Macavity Award for her ten Rei Shimura mystery novels set in Japan. Born in England to an Indian father and a German mother, Sujata Massey grew up mostly in the United States and earned her BA from the Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars program. She then worked as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun before marrying and moving to Japan. She now lives in Baltimore with her husband and children.

Sneha Mathan is a voice actor and audiobook narrator. Her audiobook work has received several Earphones awards, and she is a two-time Audie Award finalist. Although she spent much of her childhood traveling and living in other parts of the world (including India and Africa), she is now based in Seattle.