Lisa Gray is the author of the Jessica Shaw PI series and the standalone thriller THE DARK ROOM. She decided at a young age that she wanted to write features for magazines and somehow ended up working as a football journalist for almost 20 years instead. She now writes novels full-time.

An avid reader, she was hooked on Sweet Valley High and Point Horror books as a youngster, before turning to crime. Her favorite authors include Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and Karin Slaughter.

THIN AIR was her debut crime novel. The other books in the Jessica Shaw series are BAD MEMORY, DARK HIGHWAY and LONELY HEARTS.