Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-eight New York Times bestsellers, including Sting, Friction, Mean Streak, Deadline, Low Pressure, Lethal, Rainwater, Tough Customer, Smash Cut, Smoke Screen, and Play Dirty. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over seventy novels and has upwards of eighty million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. Her episode on truTVโs โMurder by the Bookโ premiered the series in 2008. She appeared in 2010 on Investigation Discoveryโs series, โHardcover Mysteries.โ Television movies have been made of her novels French Silk, Smoke Screen, Ricochet, and White Hot. Brown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas Christian University, where she and her husband Michael Brown, have instituted the ELF, a scholarship awarded annually. She has served as president of Mystery Writers of America, and in 2008 she was named Thriller Master, the top award given by the International Thriller Writerโs Association. Other honors include the Texas Medal of Arts Award for Literature and the Romance Writers of Americaโs Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2011 she went on a USO tour to Afghanistan.