Bryan Gruley is the Edgar-nominated author of seven novels and one award winning work of nonfiction. A lifelong journalist, he shared in The Wall Street Journal's Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the September 11 terrorist attacks. His new book, River Deep (Severn House, July 7 2026), is a tough, tense murder mystery novel set in small town America: Attorney Devyn Payne expects a quieter life when she returns to her hometown of Bitterfrost, until the bodies of twin eight-month-old boys are pulled from the icy depths of the local river.