Lynn Tavernier is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and studied at Sarah Lawrences Writing Institute and Grub Street, Boston. This, her debut novel--Too Far to Fall was shortlisted in June for the 2024 CWA Dagger Award and won the Claymore for Best Unpublished Mystery at the Killer Nashville Writers conference. She twenty-five years in restaurant management including former ownership of the French Bistro, Chez Pascal in Providence, Rhode Island. Tavernier lives in Saunderstown, Rhode Island with her husband and Jack, their cat.