About the Author - Where the Truth Lies
By Rupert Holmes
RUPERT HOLMES’ latest novel for Avid Reader Press, Murder Your Employer, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and is currently published in seventeen languages. His debut novel, Where the Truth Lies, received a Nero Award nomination for Best American Mystery Novel and was adapted for the screen by Oscar-nominated director Atom Egoyan. His second novel, Swing, featured its own original, clue-bearing musical score and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Holmes’ short stories have been anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories, Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop, A Merry Band of Murderers, and On a Raven’s Wing. He has received two Edgar Awards (and a third nomination) from the Mystery Writers of America and has adapted Agatha Christie, John Grisham, Charles Dickens, R. L. Stine, and Oscar Wilde for the stage. A Tony® Award–winning author, lyricist, and composer, Holmes has created multiple Broadway comedy-thrillers and mystery-musicals, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, winner of the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical of the Year. He is also the singer-songwriter whose chart recordings include the iconic #1 Billboard hit with a game-changing dénouement: “Escape (The Piña Colada Song).”