Praise for the novels of
LAURA CALDWELL
Red, White & Dead “A fresh, intelligent and emotional thriller. Laura Caldwell writes with an assured ease, showing a true sense of style and story, delivering a brilliant and complicated heroine. ” —New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry
Red Blooded Murder “Aims for the sweet spot between tough and tender, between thrills and thought—and hits the bull’s-eye … A terrific novel. ” —No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
“Take Izzy McNeil to bed tonight. You won’t get much
sleep, but you’ll spend tomorrow smiling. Red Blooded Murder is smoking hot and impossible to put down. ” —Marcus Sakey, author of Good People and The Blade Itself
Red Hot Lies “A legal lioness—Caldwell has written a gripping edge-of-the-seat thriller that will not disappoint. ” —New York Times bestselling author Steve Martini
The Good Liar “A massive achievement, in one novel, launching a woman right up there with the top thriller writers around. ” —International bestselling author Ken Bruen
The Rome Affair “A fabulous, hypnotic psychological thriller. Laura Caldwell is a force we can’t ignore. ” —New York Times bestselling author Stella Cameron
Look Closely “A haunting story of suspense and family secrets … you won’t want to put it down. ” —New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark
The Night I Got Lucky “Caldwell is one of the most talented and inventive … writers around. ” —Booklist
The Year of Living Famously “Snazzy, gripping … an exciting taste of life in the fast lane.
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Booklist A Clean Slate “A page-turner about a woman with a chance to reinvent herself. ” —Chicago Tribune
Burning the Map “A touching story of a young woman at a crossroads in her life. ” —Barnes & Noble. com on Burning the Map, selected as one of “The Best of 2002”
RED, WHITE & DEAD
LAURA CALDWELL
Dear Reader,
The Izzy McNeil series is fiction. But it’s personal, too. Much of Izzy’s world is my world. She’s proud to be a lawyer (although she can’t always find her exact footing in the legal world) and she’s even more proud to be a Chicagoan. The Windy City has never been more alive for me than it was during the writing of these books—Red Hot Lies, Red Blooded Murder and Red, White & Dead. Nearly all the places I’ve written about are as true-blue-Chicago as Lake Michigan on a crisp October day. Occasionally I’ve taken licence with a few locales, but I hope you’ll enjoy visiting them. If you’re not a Chicagoan, I hope you’ll visit the city, too, particularly if you haven’t recently. Chicago is humming right now—it’s a city whose surging vibrancy is at once surprising and yet, to those of us who’ve lived here a while, inevitable.
