Carlton Smith wrote the New York Times bestselling The Search fo the Green River Kiler. An award-winning jornalist for The Los Angeles Times and The Seattle Times during the 1970s and 1980s, he was a finalist for the Pultizer Prize in investigative reporting in 1988. His books include Mind Games, Cold Blooded, The Prom Night Murders, Cold as Ice, and In the Arms of Evil. There are more than two million copies of his books in print.