Lyn Riddle is the author of First We’ll Kill My Husband, Family Blood, and Ashes to Ashes. She is the editor of the Greenville Journal and Spartanburg Journal in South Carolina, as well as a freelance writer and journalist whose work regularly appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlanta Constitution, Reader's Digest, and Newsweek. Her commitment to investigative, in-depth reporting led her to create journalwatchdog.com, a signature website that keeps tabs on government. Riddle also teaches journalism at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She lives near Greenville, South Carolina.