In 2003, Robert Barnard received the Cartier Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement in crime writing award. He has also won the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award as well as the Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee and a member of the Detection Club, Barnard is the author of The Mistress of Alderley, The Bones in the Attic, Unholy Dying, A Scandal in Belgravia, and many other distinguished mysteries.

Roberts's story 'Sins of Scarlet' appears in ID.