I owe the authenticity of OBSESSED to Detective Chris Lyons. Cricket, it turned out, had a friend in the Special Assault Unit, and she called her to arrange for us to get together for an interview. It had a villain who was a serial rapist and I was struggling to make my cop hero’s job come across as authentic when I frankly didn’t know beans about that division of law enforcement. One day in the women’s locker room, the conversation turned to the book I’d just started writing. It wasn’t until she read my book SHADOW DANCE and liked the way I’d handled the gun part that I discovered she was a cop. She was always sort of cagey about what she did for a living, but putting bits and pieces together, I decided she was a meter maid. I’ve belonged to the same gym for over a decade, and way back in the early ’90s, I used to chat between workouts with a woman named Cricket. It’s funny how things work out sometimes. The original book cover (right) from when Obsessed was first released in October 1993.
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