Marion Brunet, born in 1976 in the Vaucluse, is a well-known Young Adult author in France. Her YA novels have received over 30 prizes, including the 2017 UNICEF Prize for Youth Literature. Marion has previously worked as a special needs educator and now writes her fiction in Marseille. Summer of Reckoning is her first novel written for adults and her first work to be translated into English. It was the winner of the 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, the prestigious French crime fiction prize.