Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, a new series centered on the
stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon Editor’s and Reader’s Digest. The sequel, The Bone Thief, was recently released, landing a spot on the USA Today Bestseller List. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and  coauthor of the # 1 Audible Charts bestseller and International Thriller Writers award  nominated, Young Rich Widows series, set in Providence, RI where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Vanessa was a Sisters in Crime board member and wrote a weekly column for the Providence
Journal about her experiences during the first year of the pandemic. She now serves as a board member for the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI. Vanessa also hosts an Instagram Live show, ‘Twas the Night Before Book Launch, where she chats with authors the night before their book is out in the world.