![Image of Author Mary Last](/_next/static/media/author-placeholder.08615b10.png)
About
Mary Last
Mary Last has written hundreds of profiles and feature stories for major newspapers and magazines for more than thirty years. She was an award-winning journalist for the New York Daily News when she lived in Brooklyn, New York. After ghost-writing non-fiction books, she turned to mystery writing. This is her first children's novel, which is the first in a series about the adventures of 12-year-old Lizzie Rice. Mary has a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brooklyn College. She and her husband live in Hemlock Farms, PA.