Blue Balliett's four mysteries--Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, The Calder Game, andThe Danger Box-- have been New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, USA Today and Indie Bound bestsellers. Her first two books, The Ghosts of Nantucket and Nantucket Hauntings, were written when she lived year-round on the island, and have been published in one volume, Nantucket Ghosts. Among other honors, Balliett has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel, Book Sense Book of the Year Award, and, most recently, a place in the White House Library when The Danger Box was handed to President Obama in January.