Lost Girls by Caitlin Rother

Pulitzer-nominated author Caitlin Rother delivers an incisive, heartbreaking true-life thriller that touches our deepest fears.  Her goal in writing this book is "to get the complete and accurate story out into the public, to try to educate people on why John Albert Gardner did what he did, what went wrong, and what could have been done differently."

Recently, Lost Girls has been chosen as a San Diego Book Awards finalist.

Paperback:  Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference.

Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for.

Treasured by their families and friends, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart.

The community's desperate search led authorities to John Albert Gardner, a brutal predator hiding in plain sight.

About the author:  Caitlin Rother is the author of Dead Reckoning (2011), Body Parts (2009), Twisted Triangle (2008), Poisoned Love (2005), and the thriller, Naked Addiction (2007).  She is also the co-author of My Life, Deleted (2011) and Where Hope Begins aka Deadly Devotion (2009).  Rother, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, worked as an investigative reporter at daily newspapers for nineteen years before deciding to write books full-time.  She is a regular contributor to In Cold Blog, and her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast.

She has appeared as a crime expert on E! Entertainment, the Oxygen Network, Investigation Discovery, Greta Van Susteren's "On The Record," and "America at Night."  She also teaches narrative non-fiction, journalism, and creative writing at UCSD Extension in San Diego, CA, where she resides.

Visit her website for more information, updates and Rother's other books.

Rother was interviewed on KPBS News on her controversial and latest book, Lost Girls (2012):