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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Hailed by bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker as “a strong new voice in American crime fiction,” J. Carson Black has written fifteen novels. Her thriller
The Shop
reached #1 on the Kindle Bestseller list, and her crime thriller series featuring homicide detective Laura Cardinal became a
New York Times
and
USA Today
bestseller. Although Black earned a master’s degree in operatic voice, she was inspired to write a horror novel after reading
The Shining
. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.