[5] Trussoni graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in history and English in 1996 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received an MFA in fiction writing in 2002.

There was significant foreign rights interest, and subsequently both books will be published in Spain, France, Germany, Romania, Greece, Japan, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Slovakia, Turkey, Latvia, Serbia, and Israel.

Described by David Baldacci as "as thrilling as it is erudite with a hero in Mike Brink who is brilliant, vulnerable and brave, with a mind irreversibly changed and enhanced by a tragic accident.

In the nimble, talented hands of Trussoni the pages fly with meticulously crafted set pieces routinely punctured by machine gun bursts of visceral action.

A fascinating history lesson wrapped in intriguing cryptographic challenges, mitered to ancient religious legends all bound around a locked room conundrum in an eerie gothic mansion of yesteryear, and laced with characters that are broad and deep, authentic and satisfying, this novel has it all and more.

And let's hope his wonderfully cool dog Conundrum is right by his side as he suits up for round two.” The setting ranges from an upstate New York women's prison to nineteenth-century Prague to the secrets of the Pierpont Morgan Library, featuring a celebrated puzzle constructor Mike Brink who is thrust into a mystery involving an ancient religious cypher, one that will unlock shocking secrets about the universe, technology, and the fate of humankind.

Trussoni's first novel, Angelology (Viking Press, 2010) is a supernatural thriller described as a "tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind's greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim".

The Crypto-Z world originated when Trussoni was conducting research for her novel The Ancestor and evolved into a scripted audio series, produced in 2019 and early 2020 with voice actors and production team members in New York City, London, and Los Angeles.