Isis Crawford is the pseudonym of American novelist Barbara Block, who is well-known for her mystery novels. She writes under the name Isis Crawford for her Mystery with Recipes series and the Robin Light series. Barbara Block was born in Egypt to diplomatic corps parents and moved back to New York City when she was five years old.
Barbara Block, also known as Isis Crawford, earned her B.A. and M.A. in Spanish from New York University and Columbia University, respectively. Her love for food and travel, which she inherited from her parents, led her to run a catering service and write travel articles. Growing up, she had every kind of pet imaginable, including a caiman, pythons, lizards, dogs, and cats.
Isis Crawford is a popular mystery writer in the USA, known for her many novels and book series. Her most famous creation is the Mystery with Recipes series, which contains eleven individual novels describing different incidents. She was born in Egypt and lived there with her parents until she was five years old. After moving back to the United States, her mother established a catering business in Upper Westchester, and her father became a university professor. Crawford developed a passion for food and cooking due to her family's love for traveling and involvement in catering. Most of her novels are based on catering events and holidays, which end up in peculiar incidences, focusing on eating events, murders, and investigations of the killings. Crawford currently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, with her husband and twin boys, where she is working on the next Bernie and Libby culinary mystery.