S. Lee Manning

S. Lee Manning spent three years as an editor on Law Enforcement Communications before realizing that lawyers make a lot more money. A subsequent legal career took her from Wall Street to the Office of the Attorney General of NJ to the Public Defender and her own practice. In 2001, Manning chaired New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, speaking on television and radio in a campaign that ended in 2007 with the abolition of the death penalty in the state.

Now writing full time, Manning is the author of international thrillers, Trojan Horse, Nerve Attack, Bloody Soil, which feature a Russian-Jewish immigrant to the United States working for American intelligence. In her latest novel, Deadly Choice, a stand alone thriller, a mother seeks revenge for the death of her daughter from a miscarriage because or Texas antiabortion laws. She lives in Vermont with her husband J.B. Manning, an award winning author, and their very annoying cats Xiao and Dmitri. She and J.B. have given talks as A Killing Couple, discussing how writing affects their marriage and how their marriage affects their writing. Their YouTube channel A Killing Couple: Writers on the Prowl launches in August 2024.