Cara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police and private detectives. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. Her nationally bestselling and award-nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has been translated into five languages. Cara's most recent book is Murder in the Latin Quarter. 

Brian Copeland is an actor, comedian, radio talk show host, playwright and author based in the San Francisco Bay Area.  For the past 12 years he has hosted a talk radio program for KGO (AM). In 2004, Copeland premiered his first one-man show, Not a Genuine Black Man, about his experiences growing up in the East Bay suburb of San Leandro in the 1970s, when it was considered a racist enclave due to its 99.4% white population and coordinated policies of housing discrimination and segregation. It became the longest-running solo show in San Francisco history. His memoir, Not A Genuine Black Man, is based on the play.