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Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45Texas Killing FieldsOver a three-decade span, more than twenty womenmany teenagersdied mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten. Six met their demise in pairs. They had one thing in common being in the wrong place at the wrong time.The day she vanished, Colette Wilson waited for her mother after band practice. Best friends Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson loved to surf and were last seen hitchhiking. Laura Kate Smither dreamed of becoming a ballerina and disappeared just weeks before her thirteenth birthday.
About the Author
A novelist and an award-winning journalist, Kathryn Casey is the creator of the Clara Jefferies and Sarah Armstrong mystery series and the author of eleven highly acclaimed true crime books. Her first novel, SINGULARITY, was one of Booklist's best crime novel debuts of that year, and Library Journal chose the third, THE KILLING STORM, as one of the year's best mysteries. Her most recent true crime book, IN PLAIN SIGHT, is an in-depth account of the infamous Kaufman County prosecutor murders, a trio of killings that shocked the nation. Casey is the only journalist to have interviewed the two killers. Her book DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS was the basis of a Lifetime movie. True crime matriarch Ann Rule has called Casey "one of the best in the true crime genre. " NY Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen describes Casey as "a true crime great. " In March 2014, Elle Magazine included a book by Casey along with those of Agatha Christie, Jane Smiley, Edna Buchanan, Joyce Carol Oates, Gillian Flynn, and others, on a list of "The Ten Best Thrillers and Crime Writing by Women. " Casey is a frequent television and radio commentator and has appeared on 20/20, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, Reelz, Court TV, Biography, Nancy Grace, E! Network, TruTv, Investigation Discovery, The Travel Channell, A&E, and other venues.
