{"title":"Ellery Adams","description":"Ellery Adams is the USA Today \u0026amp; New York Times bestselling author of over forty mystery novels. Ellery grew up on a beach near the Long Island Sound but now writes from her home in central North Carolina. She considers herself \"baked in the North and buttered in the South.\" She loves rescue animals, jigsaw puzzles, coffee, black licorice, college football, reading on rainy days, wood-burning fires, and porch swings. 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