Erica Spindler (born 1957) is a
''New York Times'' Best-Selling author, who specializes in
romantic thrillers
Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Suc ...
.
Personal life
Spindler was raised in
Rockford, Illinois
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. She lives with her husband, an advertisement executive, and their two sons in
.
Spindler had planned on becoming an artist, earning a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Background
The Bachelor ...
from
Delta State University
Delta State University (DSU) is a public university in Cleveland, Mississippi
Cleveland is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 11,199 as of the 2020 United States Census.
Cleveland has a large commercia ...
and a
Master of Fine Arts
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is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
from the
University of New Orleans
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in the visual arts.
In June 1982, while she was in bed with a cold, she picked up a romance novel for relief from daytime television. She was immediately hooked and soon decided to try to write one herself. She leaped from romance to suspense in 1996 with her novel ''Forbidden Fruit''.
Erica Spindler's Biography
About Erica Spindler
Bibliography
Novels
*''Heaven Sent'' (1987)
*''Longer Than'' (1991)
*''Baby Mine'' (1992)
*''Tempting Chance'' (1993)
*''Baby, Come Back'' (1994)
*''Slow Heat'' (1995)
*''Red'' (1995)
*''Forbidden Fruit'' (1996)
*''Fortune'' (1997)
*''Shocking Pink'' (1998)
*''Cause for Alarm'' (1999)
*''All Fall Down'' (2000)
*''Bone Cold'' (2001)
*''Dead Run'' (2002)
*''In Silence'' (2003)
*''Blood Vines'' (2010)
*''Justice for Sara'' (2013)
*''The First Wife'' (2015)
*''The Other Girl'' (2017)
*''The Look-Alike'' (2020)
Series
*Opposites Attract
**''Chances Are'' (1989)
**''Read Between the Lines'' (1989)
**''Rhyme Or Reason'' (1990)
**''Wishing Moon'' (1991)
*Blossoms of the South
**''A Winter's Rose'' (1992)
**''Magnolia Dawn'' (1993)
**''Night Jasmine'' (1993)
*Stacy Killian
**''See Jane Die'' (2004)
**''Killer Takes All'' (2005)
**''Last Known Victim'' (2007)
**''Watch Me Die'' (2012)
*Kitt Lundgren
**''Copycat'' (2006)
**''Breakneck'' (2008)
*The Lightkeepers
**"Random Acts" (2015) in Sweet Dreams Boxed Set
**''The Final Seven'' (2016)
**''Triple Six'' (2017) (aka ''If You Dare'')
**''Fallen Five'' (2018)
References
American thriller writers
Living people
1957 births
American women novelists
Writers from Rockford, Illinois
Writers from New Orleans
University of New Orleans alumni
American romantic fiction novelists
Women romantic fiction writers
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
Women thriller writers
Novelists from Illinois
Novelists from Louisiana
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