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 almost the 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.
To Catch a Killer (To Catch a Killer #1) -
Sheryl Scarborough
Tor Teen
2017
320 páginas
10h 40m
ISBN-10: 0765381915
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Sheryl Scarborough
There was a certain destiny to my career as a writer. My mother was an actress and the theater ran deep in her veins. Some of my earliest memories of the two of us are: me with script in hand feeding her cue lines. I grew up reading and watching the plays of Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Tennessee Williams and more. I viewed these plays, not just once, but every night she was on stage. Writing as a career is hard and challenging. But it’s the one thing I do better than anything else. My work has appeared in just about every medium you can imagine, from TV scripts to series concepts, comic books, children’s books, business plans and magazine articles. I have written theater and restaurant reviews in exchange for great seats and free food. I have even been a ghost-writer for a celebrity, which is more work and less haunting than it sounds. Now, I’m writing what I truly love which are YA thrillers and mysteries with a forensic twist. If I hadn’t actually been born to be a writer I’m pretty sure I would use forensics to solve real crimes… or, maybe I’d save whales. Both of these things are passions of mine and I know I would love doing them. Probably not as much as I love writing, but still. There is a tiny problem in that the sight of actual blood makes me queasy (bonus queasy points when it’s my own.) And, of course there is sea sickness. Dear Ocean, I love you but seriously those waves… pheew. Signed: me. In the end I always come back to writing because even though there’s rarely blood or sloshing waves, there’s plenty of excitement on the page and I still get the tingling roller coaster rush when I nail an especially elusive point in a story. Writing for children’s television was not only a great career and a bunch of fun but it was also a fantastic step in my process. Some of the most difficult techniques for an author to master are easy all-day for the TV writer. Things like: the elevator pitch, crafting an outline or synopsis and maintaining pace and tension over 300 pages and a crap-load of characters. My path to publishing was harder than I thought it would be. My transition from film to fiction was harder than I thought it would be and it took longer than my break into TV. It also included side trip into grad school at Vermont College of Fine Arts (aka Hogwarts for people who wish they had invented Hogwarts). If you’d like to know what other things I’ve written, you can check out my online resume.
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