Meg Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in California. She graduated from Stanford University and practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Meg authored China Lake which won the 2009 Edgar award and The Dirty Secrets Club which won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award 2008. The Liar's Lullaby (Dutton Adult, June 2010) is her eighth novel. Meg lives with her husband and their three children near London.