Bio

A few years ago Rebecca Cantrell quit her job, sold her house, and moved to Hawaii to write a novel because, at seven, she decided that she would be a writer.  She writes the Hannah Vogel mystery series set in Berlin in the 1930s, including A Trace of Smoke,  A Night of Long Knives,  A Game of Lies, and the upcoming A City of Broken Glass.

She is currently working on the first book in the Blood Gospel series with New York Times bestselling thriller author James Rollins.

Her novels have won the Bruce Alexander and Macavity awards, and been nominated for the Barry, the APPY, the RT Reviewer’s Choice, and the DABWAHA Crossover awards.

A faded pink triangle pasted on the wall of Dachau Concentration Camp and time in Berlin, Germany in the 1980s inspired A Trace of Smoke. Fluent in German, she received her high school diploma from the John F. Kennedy Schule in Berlin and studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin and the Georg August Universität in Göttingen before graduating from Carnegie Mellon University.

When she visited Berlin in the summer of 2006, she was astounded to discover that many locations in her novel have been rebuilt and reopened in the last few years, including the gay bar El Dorado and the Mosse House publishing house.

Her short stories have appeared in the Missing and First Thrills anthologies.

Her screenplays The Humanitarian and A Taste for Blood were finalists at Shriekfest: The Los Angeles Horror/Sci-fi Film Festival.

As of this writing, she lives in Hawaii with her Ironman husband and son.