Sheila TurnageΒ is from eastern North Carolina, just like Miss Moses LoBeau, the protagonist from the Mo & Dale mystery series that began with Three Times Lucky.Β Three Times LuckyΒ is a Newbery Honor Book, aΒ New York TimesΒ bestseller, an E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, and an Edgar Award finalist. It has been nominated for nineteen state awards, including the Texas Bluebonnet Master List, and has been licensed in five countries. Her follow-up book,Β The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, also aΒ New York TimesΒ bestseller, received five starred reviews and was a SIBA Winter 2014 Okra Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection. Sheila is also the author of two more books in the Mo & Dale Mystery series The Odds of Getting Even and The Law of Finders Keepers, and the nonfiction adult booksΒ Haunted Inns of the SoutheastΒ andΒ Compass American Guides: North Carolina, as well as one picture book,Β Trout the Magnificent,Β illustrated by Janet Stevens.
Lauren Fortgang is a New York Cityβbased actor whose voice-over work includesΒ video games, commercials, and live announcing. She has narrated roughly 160 unabridged audiobooks and has received recognition from AudioFile magazine, the Audio Publishers Association, the American Library Association, the Young Adult Library Services Association, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.