Michelle Chouinard (M.M. Chouinard) is the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author behind The Detective Jo Fournier thrillers and the standalone psychological thriller The Vacation. Also, her amateur-sleuth series, The Serial-Killer Guide to San Francisco, is set to be released this September. She has a Ph.D in developmental psychology from Stanford and was a founding faculty member at U.C. Merced; she loves animals, coffee, amateur genealogy, and anything to do with Halloween, Serial Killers, or the zombie apocalypse.