Susan McBride is a USA Today Bestselling author, known for her captivating and successful novel series. She has penned the Blue Blood series and the Debutante Dropout Mystery series, which won the Lefty Award and was nominated for an Anthony Award. The Debutante Dropout Mystery series includes notable books such as The Good Girl's Guide To Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night Of The Living Deb, Too Pretty To Die, and Say Yes to the Death.
McBride also created the River Road mystery book series, published by Harper Collins, with popular titles like To Helen Back and Mad as Helen. The fourth installment in this series is set to be published in the near future. In addition to these, she has authored Walk into Silence, a darker mystery novel featuring Texas police detective Jo Larsen, which was named a Kindle First pick for November 2016 and reached #1 in paid Kindle in both the US and UK.
Apart from her mystery novels, McBride has written three women's fiction titles, namely The Truth About Love & Lightning, Little Black Dress, and The Cougar Club, all published by HarperCollins. She has also authored several YA non-mystery novels for Delacorte about debutantes in Houston, such as The Debs and Love, Lies, And Texas Dips. McBride's nonfiction title, In the Pink: How I Met the Perfect (Younger) Man, Survived Breast Cancer, and Found True Happiness After 40, shares her personal journey through breast cancer and becoming an "accidental Cougar." In 2012, she was named one of St. Louis's "Most Dynamic People of the Year" by the Ladue News and received the "Survivor of the Year" Award by the St. Louis affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.