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Carla Norton has spent a lot of time in courtrooms. When Colleen Stan’s shocking seven-year captivity first hit headlines, she wedged herself between reporters and sketch artists to cover the kidnapper’s trial, and later wrote Perfect Victim in collaboration with the prosecutor. The book became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was put on the reading list for the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit.
Carla next covered the nine-murder-count trial of Dorothea Puente, a white-haired landlady who was caught burying bodies in her rose garden. In writing Disturbed Ground, Carla again puzzled over psychological issues, visited crime scenes, and molded forensic information into her narrative. (Disturbed Ground is now available on Amazon's Kindle.)
Carla has promoted her books on radio and television, including Geraldo and Larry King Live. When she’s not writing about notorious California crimes, she writes fiction, essays, and articles for publication in print and online. Her articles have appeared in California Lawyer, Diablo Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee and the Japanese edition of Reader’s Digest, where she worked as an associate editor.
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New York Times Bestseller
Perfect Victim and Disturbed Ground required interviewing all sorts of characters, visiting crime scenes, and studying complex legal, psychological, and toxicological issues. Both books were published in hard & soft cover, here and abroad.
· Perfect Victim (“co-authored” with Deputy DA McGuire) became a #1 New York Times Paperback Nonfiction Best Seller. The extraordinary insights in this true story of kidnapping, coercion and prolonged captivity put it on the reading list for FBI behavioral sciences training.
· Disturbed Ground is the true account of the life and crimes of Dorothea Puente, the Sacramento landlady who murdered her tenants and buried them in her garden.
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