Jess Lourey

Jess Lourey is an American author of crime, young adult, and magic realism novels, along with children's books and nonfiction, and is a New York Times bestselling writer. Born in 1970, Lourey has written crime fiction such as The Crying Killer and The Quarry Girls, both thrillers that lean on psychological tension. The Verdant Cage is a dystopian science fiction novel about a walled community whose carefully kept rules begin to come apart.