Newest Releases:
Oct. 4, 2011
Dec. 6, 2011
March 1, 2012DEAD RECKONING
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San Diego's CBS News 8 coverage and video of Caitlin reading from the first chapter.
Rother is teaching Advanced Feature Writing this winter at UCSD Extension. To check out course descriptions,click here.
CAITLIN ROTHER
crother@flash.netNew York Times. bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored eight books, both fiction and non-fiction. A Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist, Rother worked nearly 20 years for daily newspapers, and has made dozens of TV and radio appearances as a crime expert. She speaks to professional groups, works as an editorial consultant/book doctor, and teaches narrative non-fiction, journalism, and creative writing at UCSD Extension in San Diego, where she lives. She draws from her years of experience reporting on a wide range of topics -- from addiction, suicide, mental illness and murder to politics and corruption at City Hall and in Congress.
Her newest release is the updated edition of the true crime thriller POISONED LOVE, about the Kristin Rossum case.
Rother's upcoming book, LOST GIRLS, chronicles the story behind the rape and murder of two innocents, teenagers Chelsea King and Amber Dubois, by sexual predator John Gardner. (Kensington/Pinnacle, 2012). She is now working on a book about the murder of wealthy inventor Bill McLaughlin, the victim of a love triangle involving his fiancee Nanette Johnston Packard McNeal and her lover, former NFL player Eric Naposki.
Rother is proud to share this starred Library Journal. review of her true crime thriller DEAD RECKONING: "Well researched and a quick, engrossing read, this should be popular with true crime readers, especially the Ann Rule crowd."
MY LIFE, DELETED
"A fascinating glimpse into how the loss of memory can erase who we are but how the love of family can create us anew."
-- Susan L. Smalley, author of "Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness"
MY LIFE, DELETED -- Former NFL player Scott Bolzan lost all 46 years of his long-term memory to a severe head injury. With his college sweetheart Joan at his side, Scott had to rebuild his whole world, starting with the definition of "wife." This is his inspirational memoir of hope, love and a medical mystery that gave him a rare opportunity to become a new man. (HarperOne, October 2011)
POISONED LOVE
"A true-crime thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat... a brilliant job of captivating the inner workings of a female killer."
-- Aphrodite Jones, New York Times . best-selling crime author.
POISONED LOVE: Kristin Rossum had everything going for her -- beauty, brains, and the start of a brilliant toxicology career. But the 24-year-old San Diegan was torn between three relationships: one with her husband, who was found not breathing and covered with red rose petals; one with her married boss; and one with her old friend, crystal meth. This cautionary tale illustrates how an obsession for passion and easy access to narcotics can devastate not just one life, but many others in the process. In this updated edition, 16 pages of new developments about Rossum's appeals raise forensic questions about her conviction. (Kensington/Pinnacle, December 2011)
NAKED ADDICTION
"With a journalist's eye for the telling details of life, Caitlin Rother is a keen architect of the most important part of storytelling: character. The people in her prose grip you tightly with their truth."
-- Michael Connelly, Edgar-winner and NYT best-selling crime novelist
NAKED ADDICTION: In a lethal confluence of sex, drugs and the murder of young beauty school entrepreneurs in the wealthy beach community of La Jolla, undercover narcotics detective Ken Goode confronts his own demons during a homicide investigation that brings him into contact with a drug ring and an escort service while he tangles with a seductive witness and worries that his missing sister will be the next murder victim. (Dorchester, January 2012)
LOST GIRLS
"I was out of control ... I was aware of what I was doing and I could not stop myself. I was in a major rage ... at my whole life and everyone who's hurt me and I hurt the wrong people."
-- John Gardner
LOST GIRLS: The desperate search for two lost innocents, Chelsea King and Amber Dubois, led authorities to a brutal predator hiding in plain sight: John Albert Gardner, a convicted sex offender who could have been returned to prison several times over. Pulitzer-nominated writer Caitlin Rother delivers an incisive, heartbreaking true-life thriller about a case that galvanized its community, first by grief and goodwill, then by anger and injustice, as it came to grips with a flawed system that failed ... and adopted a law that will forever change how we keep our children safe.(Kensington/Pinnacle, July 2012)
DEAD RECKONING
"We've finally found the next Ann Rule! Caitlin Rother writes with heart and suspense. DEAD RECKONING is a chilling read by a writer at the top of her game."
-- Gregg Olsen, author of "A Twisted Faith"
DEAD RECKONING is the authoritative story behind the high-profile murder of Tom and Jackie Hawks by a clan of outlaws led by Skylar and Jennifer Deleon. Skylar Deleon, a charming conman and hermaphrodite wanna-be, tied the Hawkses to the anchor of their yacht and threw them overboard -- alive -- near Newport Beach, California, to steal their boat and pillage their bank accounts. (Kensington/Pinnacle, February 2011)
BODY PARTS
"Using a reporter's edge, novelist's eye, and a crime-scene investigator's nose for evidence, Rother's latest is all at once riveting, unbelievable, fast-paced, and sure to keep you up at night wondering how evil seems to top itself time and again."
-- M. William Phelps, author of "I'll Be Watching You"
BODY PARTS is the true story of serial killer Wayne Adam Ford, a long-haul trucker who was convicted of killing four women -- and dismembering two of them -- in four California counties. He was sentenced in 2007 and is now sitting on Death Row in San Quentin state prison. Rother will offer a comprehensive look at the case, which took eight years to get to trial, and reveal new and exclusive details about Ford and his family. (Kensington/Pinnacle, March 2009)
TWISTED TRIANGLE
"Hitchcock wishes he'd dreamed it up. Capote wishes he'd written it. Rother's mesmerizing narrative chronicles a wife's heroic struggle against great odds to survive her psychopath husband's elaborate scheme to make her murder the perfect crime. This spellbinding tale offers an added treat -- it's true."
-- Marcus Stern, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-author of "The Wrong Stuff"
TWISTED TRIANGLE:A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge TWISTED TRIANGLE: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge is the crazy but factual account of a kidnapping, an attempted murder and a love triangle involving two married FBI agents, Margo and Gene Bennett, and crime novelist Patricia Cornwell. This story made national headlines when it broke in 1996, but Rother is the first writer to tell Margo's exclusive story. (Wiley/Jossey-Bass, April 2008. Now out in paperback.)
DEADLY DEVOTION
"Please pick this book up and read it. It is well written and it is an inspirational story of courage."
-- Dr. Phil
DEADLY DEVOTION: One Family's Journey Out of Tragedy and the Reporter Who Helped Them Make It -- TV reporter Alysia Sofios risked her entire career to help the surviving female members of the Marcus Wesson family recover from a cult-like life of polygamy, incest, abuse -- and the mass murder of their nine children. Together, they helped each other grow and bond into a new resilient family with a hopeful future. (Pocket, July 2011)
