Barbara Allan

Barbara Allan is the joint pseudonym of husband-and-wife mystery writers Barbara and Max Allan Collins. Barbara is an acclaimed short-story writer, and Max is a multi-award-winning New York Times bestselling novelist and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. Their previous collaborations have included one son, several short story collections, twenty-one novels, and most recently a Trash 'n' Treasures film, Death By Fruitcake. They live in Muscatine, Iowa--their Serenity-esque hometown--in a house filled with trash and treasures.