Kathryn Casey

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Kathryn Casey (2009)

Kathryn Casey (* in Wauwatosa , Wisconsin ) is an American journalist and writer .

Life

Kathryn Casey was born in Wauwatosa , Wisconsin . The family moved to Texas in the early 1980s . She holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Houston . In 1984 she found work as the editor of Houston City Magazine , where she stayed for two years. After two more years as an editor at Ultra , a magazine aimed at wealthy customers, she spent 18 years as a journalist for Ladies' Home Journal . Since then she has been a freelance journalist and has written for magazines such as Seventeen , Texas Monthly , TV Guide and Rolling Stone , among others . Thematically, she dealt with subjects such as Hurricane Katrina , the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City .

From an article about a serial rapist who raped several housewives in Houston in the early 1990s , Casey wrote The Rapist's Wife, her first non-fiction book about a true criminal case. From then on she concentrated more and more on criminal cases and published other books with A Warrant to Kill , She Wanted It All and Die, My Love . Her 2012 book Deadly Little Secrets about a priest who killed his wife. It was adapted by Lifetime Television in 2013 in the television movie Murder in a Small Town , which was later renamed Sins of the Preacher . Directed by John Stimpson , Gail O'Grady , Christopher Gartin and James McDaniel starred .

Casey debuted as a writer in 2008 with Singularity . She bundled her experiences from her previous books in the character of Sarah Armstrong, a Texas ranger and case analyst . The book appeared two years later, after a translation by Sabine Schilasky , under the title Blutsühne by Diana Verlag in Munich. Two more novels followed in 2009 with Blood Lines and 2010 with The Killing Storm .

Works (selection)

Non-fiction
  • The Rapist's Wife (1995)
  • A Warrant to Kill (2000)
  • She Wanted It All (2005)
  • Die, My Love (2007)
  • A Descent into Hell (2008)
  • Shattered (2010)
  • Deadly Little Secrets (2012)
Sarah Armstrong series
  • Singularity (2008; German: Blutsühne , Diana Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-453-35438-8 )
  • Blood Lines (2009)
  • The Killing Storm (2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Casey, Kathryn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Wauwatosa , Wisconsin