Tasha Alexander (born Anastasia Gutting on December 1, 1969) is an American author who writes New York Times bestselling[1] historical mystery fiction.
Alexander was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana to Anastasia (Friel) and Gary Gutting, University of Notre Dame philosophy professors.
[2] In 2002, while living in New Haven, Connecticut, she started work on her first novel, after being inspired by a passage in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night.
[3] Carolyn Marino at William Morrow acquired the book, And Only to Deceive, which was published in 2005 as the first installment of the Lady Emily series.
Following a move to Franklin, Tennessee, where Alexander wrote her second novel in a local Starbucks, she eventually relocated to Chicago, where she married British crime novelist Andrew Grant (brother of bestselling author Lee Child) in 2010.