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Sarah Lovett

Her fiction known for its vivid characters, emotional resonance and spine-tingling suspense. In addition to her bestselling crime fiction, Sarah's nonfiction books include the award-winning "Extremely Weird" childrens' series. Her short fiction and how-to pieces are included in anthologies, and she's worked as a freelancer for newspapers and magazines. She's studied writing for page, stage, and screen with Sam Shepard, Robert McKee, Christopher Vogler, Natalie Goldberg, Irene Fornes, and Miriam Sagan. She has also enjoyed a season as guest playwright at Padua Hills Festival in California, and the role of artistic director of the Rockefeller grant recipient Theatre-in-the-Red.

Known for her rigorous research that goes into her books, Sarah has spent hours inside prisons talking with and interviewing inmates, she attends forensic psychology and psychiatry conferences and networks with experts in the field, and she's been a speaker at criminal justice meetings. She has a degree in criminal justice, and is currently pursuing a degree in psychology.

Learn more about Sarah at www.sarahlovett.com

books by Sarah Lovett

Dark Alchemy

A string of unsolved deaths in research laboratories throughout the world has led the FBI to a single suspect: Dr. Christine Palmer. A beautiful, world-renowned toxicologist and leader of numerous international research teams, she is one of only a handful of scientists with highly classified knowledge of the deadliest experimental neurotoxins and their antidotes.

Dantes Inferno

Dr. Sylvia Strange, the forensic psychologist at the heart of Sarah Lovett s best-selling series of crime thrillers, returns for a fourth outing in DANTES INFERNO (Simon & Schuster; April 2001). This time, Dr. Strange leaves behind her familiar New Mexico terrain for the blistering urban turmoil of Los Angeles, as a serial bomber threatens to destroy that beleaguered city.

A Desperate Silence

A child haunted by demons, a condemned inmate who might be innocent, a drug kingpin -- psychologist Sylvia Strange must unlock the secret that binds them.

Drawn into the world of a ten-year-old child too scared to speak, Dr. Strange must uncover this little girl's secrets or else the knowledge she possesses just might die with her.

Acquired Motives

A vigilante serial killer is terrorizing Santa Fe. The victims: violent sex offenders who got off on legal technicalities. It's the job of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Stange to uphold the law-- and stop the executions.

Slowly, seductively, Sylvia is pulled into the demented world of a vengeance-seeking sadist. It will take all of her insight into the criminal mind, along with the eerie visions of a shaman convict, to uncover the killer's identity--before she becomes the next corpse.

Dangerous Attachments

As a consultant to the New Mexico prison system, forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has probed the minds of some of the country's most disturbed and dangerous criminals. But nothing prepares her for the madness of Lucas Watson.When Lucas escapes from the state penitentiary, he coolly and methodically begins to stalk Sylvia. Now, caught in a harrowing cat-and-mouse game that only one of them can win, Sylvia must use all of her psychological insights and courage to stay one step ahead of a madman.