Award-winning author Carrie Bebris is best known for her Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery series, which debuted with Pride and Prescience. The novel made the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller list and was named one of the five best mysteries of 2004 by Library Journal. The third book in the series, North by Northanger, won the Daphne du Maurier Award and a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery.
Carrie is on the faculty of the 2008 Antioch Writers' Workshop and speaks frequently about writing and publishing. He holds a master's degree in English literature with an emphasis on 19th-century authors and studied Austen on the graduate level. She is a life member of the Jane Austen Society of North America and travels to England to enhance her understanding of Austen's life and work.