When I started writing To Catch A Killer I had no idea what a personal journey it would become. Like my protagonist, Erin, I grew up not knowing my father. In my case I knew his name, just not the man. And while I piled extra challenges onto Erin, please know, readers, that her quest for identity comes from an honest place of needing to know who you are and where you belong.

In To Right The Wrongs, Erin’s identity continues to unravel because sometimes things have to come all the way apart before they can come together. Stunning secrets are revealed and another murder is investigated. Erin and her friends wind up on probation for meddling and as usual, In Erin’s world, there are so many wrongs and so little time to right them.

Erin Blake has one goal for summer vacation: leave behind her reputation as the girl whose mom was murdered, and just be a normal girl enjoying her first real romance.

Unfortunately—or maybe fortunately for a mystery fanatic—her hot new boyfriend has an unsolved murder in his own past. When Journey was a baby, his father was convicted of the murder of a teenage runaway and sent to prison. Journey barely remembers him now, but he’s been researching the case and something doesn’t add up. His father has no reason to kill anyone, much less a teenager, and he’s always maintained his innocence. Journey’s convinced his father was framed. Now he just needs to prove it.

But if Journey’s father didn’t do it, that means somebody else did—and after getting away with it for sixteen years, that person could be more dangerous than ever. So Erin is under strict orders not to meddle in the case…but that’s easier said than done.

Promotion!

CONFESSION: I hated science in high school because it didn’t feel accessible and didn’t relate to anything in my actual life. But my books are full of cool, accessible science. I research this stuff the same way my teen characters would—I use the internet and mail order. I cobble things together and monitor my results. And I like my readers to be able to do the same. For TO CATCH A KILLER, I gave out fingerprint kits that looked like make up.

In TO RIGHT THE WRONGS my characters combine a tracking beacon with a bookmark and plant it on their stalkery principal so they can keep tabs on her. This isn’t futuristic technology. It exists right here, right now! I want you to be able to test it out and experience it like I did. So, as a promotion I’ll be giving away “Bella Beacon Tracking Bookmarks” which can be used not only for my book, but you can clip it onto your book bag, purse, keys, pet. It’s reusable. It’s cool. It’s TECHY. It’s even girly! (Take that, STEM!) Be watching for my promotions and giveaways on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. In the meantime, take a look at the video demonstration of the Bella Beacon Bookmark by my adorable nieces.

Bella Beacon Bookmark Setup

Bookmark Setup Demo

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ERIN BLAKE has one of those names. A name that, like Natalee Holloway or Elizabeth Smart, is inextricably linked to a grisly crime. As a toddler, Erin survived for three days alongside the corpse of her murdered mother, and the case—which remains unsolved—fascinated a nation. Her father’s identity unknown, Erin was taken in by her mother’s best friend and has become a relatively normal teen in spite of the looming questions about her past.

Fourteen years later, Erin is once again at the center of a brutal homicide when she finds the body of her biology teacher. When questioned by the police, Erin tells the almost whole truth, but never voices her suspicions that her mother’s killer has struck again in order to protect the casework she’s secretly doing on her own.

Inspired by her uncle, an FBI agent, Erin has ramped up her forensic hobby into a full-blown cold-case investigation. This new murder makes her certain she’s close to the truth, but when all the evidence starts to point the authorities straight to Erin, she turns to her longtime crush (and fellow suspect) Journey Michaels to help her crack the case before it’s too late.

Audio Book

Q: What do and have in common?

A: Christy Romano, the voice of Kim Possible, is the narrator of this Audible version of To Catch A Killer! Listen to the sample below, and order it here.