CAITLIN ROTHER



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Caitlin Rother is the author of four books, both fiction and non-fiction, has just finished co-authoring her fifth. She is working on her next non-fiction project and another novel.

Rother, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, worked for 19 years as an investigative reporter for daily newspapers, and has made numerous TV and radio appearances as a crime expert. She speaks to professional groups and teaches journalism and creative writing, drawing from her years of experience covering a wide range of topics -- from addiction, suicide, mental illness and murder to politics and corruption at City Hall and in Congress. She lives in San Diego, CA.

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Rother will be teaching a creative writing workshop at UCSD Extension this summer. To check out course description and enroll, click here.


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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. (Paperback to be released by Wiley/Jossey-Bass in April 2009)


"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"




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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)

"As with all of her nonfiction, Caitlin Rother delivers page-turning excitement and blood curdling terror once again with BODY PARTS, yet her skill screams loudest in covering the details of murder--sometimes the most ghastly crimes imaginable. 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"







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NAKED ADDICTION -- a fictional tale of sex, drugs and police detective Ken Goode’s investigation into the murder of young beauty school students in two San Diego beach communities -- is Rother’s first thriller. (Dorchester, Nov. 2007)


"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





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POISONED LOVE is the true story of Kristin Rossum, an attractive and talented toxicologist convicted of poisoning her husband with drugs she stole from her lab at the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office. Rossum, who had been having an affair with her married boss, claimed her husband Greg de Villers had sprinkled red rose petals over his own body and then committed suicide because she was leaving him. (Kensington/Pinnacle, 2005)

"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.