USA Today has called Christy Barritt's books "scary, funny, passionate, and quirky." A Publishers Weekly bestseller, Christy writes both mystery and romantic suspense novels. Her books have won the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Suspense and Mystery and have been twice nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award.
Christy currently splits her time between the Virginia suburbs and Hatteras Island, North Carolina. She has more than 50 books published, with nearly two million copies sold.