Annette Finley-Croswhite, Ph.D.(1959- ) was raised in Virginia by southern parents who moved often but usually around the greater Washington, D.C. area. She loved history from an early age and except for a momentary delusion about law school, for most of her life she never dreamed of being anything else but an historian and writer. Annette graduated from the University of Richmond with a degree in history in 1981. By 1984 she was a student in England, but the allure of France was just too great. Her fashion sense and love of haute couture was just better suited to Paris than London, and thus one rainy day she boarded a ferry for the continent and never looked back. In 1991 she earned her Ph.D. in history from Emory University and took up a faculty position at Old Dominion University in Virginia with a specialization in early modern French history. In graduate school Annette met Gayle K. Brunelle and the two became thick as thieves. Once they were both tenured they developed a creative project that became "Murder in the Métro," the tale of the first murder ever to occur in the Paris métro in 1937, the political assassination of Laetitia Toureaux. While Gayle and Annette have published academic works separately and will certainly continue to do so in the future, they also plan a number of future collaborative projects, the first being a sequel to "Murder in the Métro," a biography of the Cagoulard leader, Eugène Deloncle. Annette is also working on a project that explores tetanus in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) in the eighteenth century and a book called "One Man's Life" about her father's experiences as a young Protestant minister in the deep south in the late 1940s. Annette lives in Norfolk, Virginia with her husband, two sons, and two cats. She spends time every summer in France with the intrepid Gayle pursuing their "cottage industry" as writers.