She is also the author of the children's book, How to Negotiate Everything, illustrated by Jaime Temairik.

Finally, in a lonely mountain lodge enshrouded in menace, the story comes to its breathtaking climax. Lisa Lutz is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including The Passenger (2016),, six novels in the Spellman books series, and, co-authored with David Hayward. The sinister, surprising drama unfolds against Boulder's Rocky Mountain backdrop, in the arresting natural beauty of Aspen, and in the midst of a baroque Halloween costume party in downtown Boulder. Bound to silence, Gregory follows the psychological tracks of someone he fears may be a cunning and disturbed killer, while turning to his enigmatic but supportive partner, Diane Estevez, for counsel, and to his tart-tongued female urologist neighbor for support. The question of the inviolability of confidential disclosures made to Gregory by his patients - privileged information - becomes crucial as the psychologist pursues an unsettling romance with Lauren Crowder, a lovely deputy district attorney investigating one of the deaths. Lacking facts but roused by suspicion and troubled by seemingly random acts of terror around him, Gregory starts to fear for the safety of the people he loves. He launches a psychological and personal quest for the truth that rapidly intensifies when more of his patients die untimely deaths, and Gregory suspects not only that the deaths are related but that another one of his patients may be somehow involved. His life begins to unravel when one of his female patients is found in an apparent suicide and the local paper begins printing accusations from an unnamed source of sexual impropriety between the woman and Dr. Lisa Lutz is the author of the New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award and Macavity Awardnominated, and Alex Awardwinning Spellman Files series, as well as the novels How to Start a Fire, The Passenger, and The Swallows. Alan Gregory is a clinical psychologist with a thriving practice in Boulder, Colorado.

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz