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“No
matter how innocent the story being relayed to me is, I can twist it into something
pretty damn frightening. I’ve learned the real trick is not sharing these versions
with those relaying the story. It tends to make people avoid me.” With
Last Known Victim, Erica again shows that she is at the top of her game
as she takes her readers into the world of post-Katrina New Orleans. A serial
killer has benefited from the confusion of the disaster to mask the true horror
of his crimes. Now one police captain must risk her career to unmask the villain
and solve a murder that has become her personal obsession: that of her own husband.
So says New York Times bestselling
author Erica Spindler, who has written 27 novels, including Copycat, Killer
Takes All, See Jane Die, Dead Run and Bone Cold. Her
novel Red was turned into both a wildly popular graphic novel and a daytime
drama in Japan. Her skill for crafting engrossing plots and compelling characters
has earned both critical praise and legions of fans. Published in 25 countries,
her stories have been lauded as “thrill-packed, page turners, white- knuckle rides
and edge-of-your-seat whodunits.” The New Orleans Times-Picayune praised
Erica’s 2003 novel In Silence, calling it “creepy and compelling; a real
page turner.” Raised in Rockford, Illinois,
Erica had planned on being an artist, earning a BFA from Delta State University
and an MFA from the University of New Orleans in the visual arts. In June of 1982,
in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television.
She was immediately hooked, and soon decided to try to write one herself. She
leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel Forbidden Fruit,
and found her true calling. In 2002 her novel
Bone Cold won the prestigious Daphne du Maurier Award for excellence. A
Romance Writers of America Honor Roll member, she received a Kiss of Death Award
for her novels Forbidden Fruit and Dead Run and was a three-time
RITA® Award finalist. In 1999 Publishers Weekly awarded the audio version
of her novel Shocking Pink a Listen Up Award, naming it one of the best
audio mystery books of 1998. Erica
lives just outside New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two sons. | 
