Allison Leotta

Allison Leotta is an American novelist, former prosecutor and blogger, best known for her popular legal crime thrillers. Her books have won various awards and have been placed on multiple best-seller lists. She has been dubbed the "female John Grisham" but has stated that she instead wishes John Grisham to be dubbed "the male Allison Leotta".

Leotta graduated from Michigan State University and Harvard Law School and worked as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in sex crimes, domestic violence and crimes against children. In 2011, she left the Justice Department to become an author full time, writing acclaimed novels such as ''Law of Attraction'', ''Discretion'', ''Speak of the Devil'', ''A Good Killing'', and ''The Last Good Girl''. She currently has TV reviews being carried by the ''Huffington Post'' as well running a legal blog known as the ''Prime-Time Crime Review'' which the American Bar Association hailed as "one of the best legal blogs in America".

Her first novel, ''Law of Attraction'', was published in 2010, and is part of the critically acclaimed series about the fictional sex-crimes prosecutor, Anna Curtis and her dealings with domestic violence cases. This has stemmed into a series of five books (listed above) written involving Anna Curtis. Leotta has stated in interviews that she has drawn inspiration from her previous legal experiences to write her novels and attributes their success to her first-hand experience as a prosecutor. Provided by Wikipedia