Lori G. Armstrong

Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Lori Armstrong is the two-time Shamus Award winning author of Snow Blind, in the Julie Collins mystery series, and No Mercy, in the Mercy Gunderson series. Blood Ties and Hallowed Ground were also Shamus Award nominees. She has won the WILLA Cather Literary Award for Hallowed Ground and was a finalist for the books Shallow Grave, No Mercy and Merciless.

PSST...wanna know a secret? Lori is also the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romances written under the pen name Lorelei James! Okay, that's not a huge secret, but if you like steamy books, check out her work. It's not a huge secret, either, that she's married to a gun guy. Yes, she has a firearms expert at her disposal; No, she can't get you a sweet deal on an AK-47.

Lori, her alter ego Lorelei, and her gun guy hubby, live in western South Dakota with their spoiled corgi.