Allison Montclair grew up devouring hand-me-down Agatha Christie paperbacks and James Bond movies. As a result of this deplorable upbringing, she became addicted to tales of crime, intrigue, and espionage. Montclair now spends her spare time poking through the corners, nooks, and crannies of history, searching for odd mysterious bits and transforming them into novels of their own. She is the author of The Right Sort of Man and A Royal Affair, the previous novels in the Sparks and Bainbridge series.
