Emily Murdock Baker is an Associate Editor at Penguin Books, where she edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction, and produces enhanced e-books. She also coordinates media tie-ins for Penguin. Her past titles include Paul French’s New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award-winner Midnight in Peking, Catherine Bailey’s New York Times bestseller The Secret Rooms, Alex Marwood’s Edgar Award-winning psychological thrillers, Sophie Hannah’s Zailer and Waterhouse series, and Patricia Bracewell’s Emma of Normandy trilogy. She has produced enhanced e-books for Antony Beevor’s D-Day and Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-wining Malcolm X. She is always on the lookout for excellent historical fiction that doesn’t involve the Tudors; mysteries that have a compelling mystery and a compelling main character, or mysteries with an interesting setting (especially if that setting is historical); psychological thrillers; up-market women’s fiction; narrative histories that take a person or event and use them as a lens to view the larger time and place; histories that investigate or unravel a mystery; and literary true crime. She loves Scotland, the Patriots and Red Sox, baked goods of all varieties, trashy television, and a strong cup of tea. She has never lived more than 30 minutes from the beach. A graduate of Boston University’s School of Communication, she began her career in Hollywood before coming to her senses and returning to the East Coast. Originally from Maine, she lives in Brooklyn.