The Black Heart Crypt (31 page)

CHRIS GRABENSTEIN’S
first three books for younger readers—
The Crossroads, The Hanging Hill
, and
The Smoky Corridor
—have won a bunch of accolades and awards, including two Agathas and one Anthony.

Born in Buffalo, New York (where sometimes it snows on Halloween), and raised in Tennessee (which is why Davy talks the way he does), Chris moved to New York City many years ago to become an actor and a writer. He did improvisational comedy in a Greenwich Village basement with some of the city’s funniest performers, including this one guy named Bruce Willis. He used to write TV and radio commercials, cowrote the made-for-TV movie
The Christmas Gift
, starring John Denver, and even wrote for the Muppets.

Chris is also a
New York Times
bestselling author of such award-winning mysteries and thrillers for adults as
Tilt-A-Whirl, Rolling Thunder
, and
Slay Ride
.

Chris and his wife, the actress J. J. Myers, live in New York City with three cats and a dog named Fred, who has the best credits in the family: Fred starred on Broadway in
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
. You can visit Chris (plus Fred and the cats) at
ChrisGrabenstein.com
. Chris loves hearing from readers. His email address is
[email protected]
.