AL ROKER is known to over thirty million viewers each week for his work on NBC’s Today show, a role that has earned him ten Emmy awards. He also has his own show on the Weather Channel, Wake Up With Al. He is a blockbuster New York Times bestselling author for his book Don’t Make Me Stop This Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood. An accomplished cook, Roker also has two cookbooks to his credit, including the bestselling Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue. The Morning Show Murders marks his first foray into fiction. Bantam Dell will publish the second Billy Blessing mystery in 2010. Al resides in Manhattan with his wife, ABC News and 20/20 correspondent Deborah Roberts, and has two daughters and a son.
DICK LOCHTE is the author of a list of popular crime novels including the award-winning Sleeping Dog, named one of the “100 favorite mysteries of the century” by the Independent Booksellers Association. His crime fiction column that ran for nearly a decade in the Los Angeles Times earned him the 2003 Ellen Nehr Award for Excellence in Mystery Reviewing. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son.