I'll be at Bouchercon 2011--Spirits of St. Louis September 15-18.

Check out my short story, Five Revelations Concerning Jenny L., in the anthology, Noir at the Bar. Watch the killer trailer here.

Read my essay on the Sherlock Holmes classic, The Hound of the Baskervilles, in the award-winning Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads. Available now!

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Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts | novel by Laura Benedict

"Spellbinding." --Publisher's Weekly

"Where sins of the spirit meet sins of the flesh and no character is left unscathed."
--Jonathan Santlofer, bestselling author of The Murder Notebook

Isabella Moon | novel by Laura Benedict

An amalgam of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Peter Straub's Ghost Story, this mystery/thriller will simultaneously tug at the heartstrings and scare the bejesus out of readers. In a word: unforgettable."
--Chicago Tribune

I write stories. Dark ones, mostly.

There's a wonderful Latin phrase-- in medias res --that means in the middle of things. To my mind, that's always the best place to begin a story...

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