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Kathryn Casey is an American writer of mystery novels and non-fiction books. She is best known for writing She Wanted It All, which recounts the case of Celeste Beard, who married an Austin multimillionaire only to convince her lesbian lover, Tracey Tarlton, to kill him. Early life and education In 1980, Casey moved with her husband to Texas, where she attended the University of Houston and earned a degree in journalism. Career In 1984, Casey began writing as an intern at the now-defunct Houston City Magazine. She left two years later as a senior editor. She then worked for two years as editor of Ultra, a regional magazine geared toward wealthy Texans. Casey wrote for Ladies' Home Journal, where she was a contributing editor for 18 years, as well as More (magazine), TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Reader's Digest, and Texas Monthly. During her years as a magazine journalist, Casey interviewed celebrities in the movie, television, and recording industry, plus presidents and first ladies. She covered subjects ranging from the Oklahoma City bombing, the aftermath of 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina, to infertility and the McCaughey Septuplets. Casey's articles often examined sensational crimes. In the early 1990s, one case she covered for Ladies' Home Journal bout a serial rapist attacking Houston-area women, resulted in her first book, The Rapist's Wife. After its release, Casey concentrated on writing nonfiction, fact-based crime books. Her seventh true-crime book covered the Matt Baker case in Waco, Texas, about the Baptist minister who was convicted of killing his wife and staging it to look like a suicide. Baker, sentenced to 65 years, resides in the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a Texas state prison. Cy-Fair Magazine, upon the July 2012 release of the book Deadly Little Secrets, covered the Baker case and others in a feature article about Casey. The Houston Chronicle also covered the release of the book. Deadly Little Secrets was the inspiration for the film Sins of the Preacher, which aired on the Lifetime television network in September 2013.Casey then turned to crime fiction. In 2009, Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association, named Casey's debut novel, Singularity, one of the "Best Crime Novel Debuts of 2009" on its Bestseller Lists. The main character in her mystery series is Sarah Armstrong, a Texas Ranger and a criminal profiler. In Singularity, Armstrong travels across Texas hunting a serial killer. Library Journal picked the third in the series, The Killing Storm, as a best book of 2010 in its mystery category.Casey's 11th book, Deliver Us, released January 2015 by HarperCollins, is based on murders along the Texas Killing Fields and Interstate 45. In March 2014, Elle Magazine included Casey along with Agatha Christie, Jane Smiley, Edna Buchanan, Joyce Carol Oates, Gillian Flynn, Ann Rule and others, in a list of "The Ten Best Thrillers and Crime Writing by Women."Casey was a co-founder of Women in Crime Ink, which has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "a blog worth reading."In July 2011, she wrote an article for Forbes Woman about new options available to authors with the advent of eBooks and independent publishing.Her first foray into historical fiction, released in September 2023, was Angel Falls, inspired by the life of Ruth Robertson, a photojournalist whose 1949 expedition successfully measured Angel Falls in Venezuela as the tallest waterfall in the world.Author Ann Rule called her "one of the best in the true crime genre." Personal life She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband. Appearances In 1995, Casey appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss The Rapist's Wife along with the subject in the title, Linda Bergstrom. In the years since, Casey has appeared on Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, Court TV, Biography, Nancy Grace, E! Network, Investigation Discovery and the A&E. In October 2006, she appeared on The Montel Williams Show to discuss women who unknowingly dated wanted criminals.She appeared in ABC's 20/20 November 2022 episode "Tainted Love" about the murder of millionaire businessman Steve Beard at the hands of his younger wife Celeste Beard.Casey was featured in the 2022 Netflix documentary miniseries Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields, directed by Jessica Dimmock.She speaks at book festivals and events, including the Texas Library Association convention, Southwest Louisiana Writer's Conference, Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend book conference, and the Texas Book Festival. Books True Crime A Warrant to Kill (2000 HarperCollins) (ISBN 0380780410)) She Wanted It All (2005 Avon Books) (ISBN 0739452282) A Descent into Hell (2008 HarperCollins) (ISBN 0061230871) Die, My Love (2007 HarperCollins) (ISBN 0060846208) Evil Beside Her (2008 HarperCollins) reissue of The Rapist's Wife (ISBN 0061582018) Shattered (2010 HarperCollins) (ISBN 0061582026) Murder, I Write (2011 Crime Rant Classics) (ASIN B005I6B2JE) Deadly Little Secrets (2012 HarperCollins) (ISBN 0062018558) Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields (2015 HarperCollins) (ISBN 0062300490) Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder (2016 William Morrow) (ISBN 0062300512) In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders (2018 William Morrow) (ISBN 9798988247715)Historical fiction Angel Falls (2023 Kathryn Casey Publishing) (ISBN 0062363506)Sarah Armstrong Mystery series Singularity (2008 St. Martin's Minotaur, 1st in series) (ISBN 0312379501) Blood Lines (2009 St Martin's Minotaur, 2nd in series) (ASIN B00A8QHMJ8) The Killing Storm (November 2010 St. Martin's Minotaur, 3rd in series) (ISBN 098466629X) The Buried (November 2018, 4th in series) (ASIN B07H2JPXYM)Clara Jefferies Mystery series The Fallen Girls (2020 Hachette, 1st in series) (ISBN 1838886028) Her Final Prayer (2020 Hachette, 2nd series) (ISBN 1800190360) The Blessed Bones (2021 Hachette, 3rd series) (ISBN 180019370X)References External links Author's official web site Kathryn Casey at IMDb. 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  • Singularity synopsis, comments

    Singularity

    Kathryn Casey

    Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it’s like to be in a sticky situation. But when megawealthy businessman Edward Lucas III is found murdered along with his mistress, their bodies...

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    In Plain Sight

    Kathryn Casey

    JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County...

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    Die, My Love

    Kathryn Casey

    The day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on Earth for respected, wellliked college professor Fred Jablin. That morning, a neighbor discovered his body lying in a pool of bloo...

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    Deliver Us

    Kathryn Casey

    Featured in the Netflix limited series: Crime Scene, The Texas Killing Fields!Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young w...

  • Angel Falls synopsis, comments

    Angel Falls

    Kathryn Casey

    "A dynamic cast of characters, lush settings, and an engaging plot that is sure to excite Casey's legion of loyal fans."New York Times bestselling author of Perennials, J...

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    The Buried

    Kathryn Casey

    Hidden in the shadows of an East Texas pine forest, a man and a woman watch worshippers file out of a church. The man lights a match, and flames erupt, climbing the thirsty clapboa...

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    The Killing Storm

    Kathryn Casey

    On a quiet afternoon in Houston, 4yearold Joey Warner plays in a park sandbox when a stranger approaches looking for his runaway dog. While Joey's mom, Crystal, talks on her cell p...

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    Possessed

    Kathryn Casey

    A WALKING NIGHTMAREIN SIZENINE STILETTOS . . .The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston’s hippest highrises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations...

  • Shattered synopsis, comments

    Shattered

    Kathryn Casey

    “Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today.”Ann RuleWith true crime classics like Descent into Hell and Die My Love, author Kathryn Casey has peered into the darkes...

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    Blood Lines

    Kathryn Casey

    Readers loved Sarah Armstrong, the feisty and vulnerable profiler in Kathryn Casey's first mystery, Singularity. She's back in this second book in the series with her hands full wi...

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    Mrs. Fletcher

    Tom Perrotta

    Now an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!“Light, zingy, and laughoutloud funny” (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes...