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J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 20 critically acclaimed novels, including, Tear Me Apart, Lie to Me, and All The Pretty Girls, and coauthored the, A Brit in the FBI series with #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter. J.T. is also the EMMY® Award-winning co-host of the television series, A Word on Words.
With millions of books in print, Ellison’s work has been published in 27 countries and 15 languages. Her novel, The Cold Room won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original. Her novels, Field of Graves and Where All The Dead Lie were each a RITA® nominee for Best Romantic Suspense. She is also the author of multiple short stories.
Ellison’s first standalone novel, No One Knows, a Nashville-based domestic thriller, was published in 2016 by Gallery Books. It was followed by the critically acclaimed, Lie to Me, published in 2017 by MIRA Books. Tear Me Apart released August 28, 2018. Good Girls Lie, released December 30, 2019. Her newest standalone, Her Dark Lies released March 9, 2021.
She lives with her husband and twin kittens in Nashville, where she enjoys fine wine and good notebooks.