Jill Churchill has won the Agatha and Macavity Mystery Readers awards and was nominated for an Anthony Award for her bestselling Jane Jeffry series. She is also the author of the highly acclaimed Grace and Favor mysteries and lives in the Midwest.

Jill Churchill is the bestselling author of the Jane Jeffry mystery series for Avon Books. The first in the series was nominated as "Best First Novel" for the Anthony award and won both prestigious Agatha and the Macavity awards in the same category. She says writing this series is the best treat she can have without a knife and fork.

Under her real name, Janice Young Brooks, she's written a number of historical novels and is an avid amateur genealogist. Like her sleuth, she lives in Midwestern suburbia, but without half a Jane Jeffry's murderous adventures.