Maia Chance is a national bestselling author whose writing has been described as “compulsive,” “twisty,” and “heart-wrenching.”

She was born in Colville, Washington and grew up in Moscow, Idaho. She graduated from Eastman School of Music with a B.M. in Violin Performance and went on to earn a Master’s in Violin Performance from Longy School of Music. After a brief career as an orchestral musician in the Boston area, she returned to the Northwest to earn a PhD in English Literature from the University of Washington. Along the way she began to write fiction, eventually publishing nine mystery novels. She has also published three short stories, and one of her mysteries was anthologized in Reader’s Digest Fiction Favorites. THE BODY NEXT DOOR is her first thriller. 

She lives on an island in Washington State with her husband, two children, and one naughty dog.