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June 5, 2020
New Release
Hello!
Just a quick note to let you know that FIND ME comes out July 1. But did you know it’s currently free to members of Amazon Prime Reading? Prime readers also have the option to purchase at a discount. Not a member of Prime Reading? Consider pre-ordering your copy!
ABOUT THE BOOK
A bone-chilling family history is unearthed in a heart-stopping thriller by New York Times bestselling author Anne Frasier.
Convicted serial killer Benjamin Fisher has finally offered to lead San Bernardino detective Daniel Ellis to the isolated graves of his victims. One catch: he’ll only do it if FBI profiler Reni Fisher, his estranged daughter, accompanies them. As hard as it is to exhume her traumatic childhood, Reni can’t say no. She still feels complicit in her father’s crimes.
Perfect to play a lost little girl, Reni was the bait to lure unsuspecting women to their deaths. It’s time for closure. For her. For the families. And for Daniel. He shares Reni’s obsession with the past. Ever since he was a boy, he’s been convinced that his mother was one of Fisher’s victims.
Thirty years of bad memories are flooding back. A master manipulator has gained their trust. For Reni and Daniel, this isn’t the end of a nightmare. It’s only the beginning.
From Anne’s editor: We all have family secrets. A relative who jumped ship rather than go to war. A family heirloom won in an illegal poker game. A secret relationship with a forbidden love. But in Anne Frasier’s Find Me, Reni Fisher has a much darker family secret: her father is the notorious Inland Empire Killer…and he used her as bait to lure his victims to their deaths.
Reni was only a child during the incidents, but she still carries the guilt. If only she could have stopped him or helped the victims. If only she could provide those families with closure now. But her father has never revealed the locations of all the bodies—not even when Reni herself worked as an FBI profiler.
Detective Daniel Ellis has made the Inland Empire Killer his life’s work—his own family secret the motivation for his investigation. Now the killer has promised to show Daniel where all the bodies are buried…under one condition: Reni must come with them.
Family secrets have been the pillars of much of Anne Frasier’s fiction. In fact, a dark and horrible secret was at the center of her 2017 Thriller Award–winning novel, The Body Reader. But Anne has upped the ante here, delving not only into the dark corners of secrets but also how these secrets affect those who live with them.
What family secrets are you hiding from?
– Jessica Tribble Wells, Editor
Thanks so much for your continued support. I hope you enjoy the new book, and, as always, please consider leaving an Amazon review!
~ Anne
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September 17, 2019
What’s Up?
I’ve been getting a lot of emails from readers who want to know if there will be more Sandburg and Fontaine books, so I thought I’d address that question here. At this time I don’t have any Sandburg or Fontaine books planned. BUT that doesn’t mean there will never be more!
What’s next?
I just turned in a single title that will be released in about a year. It’s a little early to share details, but I’ll start talking about it more as the release date approaches.
Thanks for your continued support!
~Anne
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June 12, 2018
The Body Counter
PURCHASE LINKS https://www.annefrasier.com/writing/t...
Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.
At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims—until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable; in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. His theory is adding up. The body count is rising.
But when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. For all she knows, her number may be up.
What readers are saying:
“The second installment in the Jude Fontaine series is just as engaging, dark, and twisty as the first one.”
“A page turner from start to finish.”
“The Body Counter continues to lead us through the dark dysfunctional lives of Detectives Jude Fontaine and Uriah Ashby as they race to solve soulless murders, while battling their own personal demons. As always, the main story has a perfect ending....and the side notes leave me begging for another in this series.”
“Another page turner from this master. Jude Fontaine is at it again, figuring out a most mathematical serial killer. You won't put it down once you get started.”
“This book was better than book one, and I loved book one.”
“As the violence ramps up so does the adrenaline that keeps you on the edge of your seat.High octane and chilling the story unfolds sometimes unexpectedly and definitely twisted for an easily addicting series.”
“Jude is a unique character that is strong yet weak, emotional without being outwardly emotional, and overall complex. I highly recommend reading the first book before delving into this one just to get a grip on Jude and who she is.”
New to the series?
You might want to check out the first book in the Jude Fontaine Mystery Series, The Body Reader, 2017 International Thriller Writer Award winner for Best Paperback Original Novel.
PURCHASE LINKS https://www.annefrasier.com/writing/t...
For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.
After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.
Thank you!
Once again, thank you for your continued support! I hope you enjoy the new book, and, as always, please consider leaving an Amazon and Goodreads review.
~ Anne
The Body Counter (Book 2)
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the chilling follow-up to the Thriller Award winner The Body Reader.
Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.
At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims—until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable; in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. His theory is adding up. The body count is rising.
But when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. For all she knows, her number may be up.
What readers are saying:
“The second installment in the Jude Fontaine series is just as engaging, dark, and twisty as the first one.”
“A page turner from start to finish.”
“The Body Counter continues to lead us through the dark dysfunctional lives of Detectives Jude Fontaine and Uriah Ashby as they race to solve soulless murders, while battling their own personal demons. As always, the main story has a perfect ending….and the side notes leave me begging for another in this series.”
“Another page turner from this master. Jude Fontaine is at it again, figuring out a most mathematical serial killer. You won’t put it down once you get started.”
“This book was better than book one, and I loved book one.”
“As the violence ramps up so does the adrenaline that keeps you on the edge of your seat.High octane and chilling the story unfolds sometimes unexpectedly and definitely twisted for an easily addicting series.”
“Jude is a unique character that is strong yet weak, emotional without being outwardly emotional, and overall complex. I highly recommend reading the first book before delving into this one just to get a grip on Jude and who she is.”
New to the series?
You might want to check out the first book in the Jude Fontaine Mystery Series, The Body Reader, 2017 International Thriller Writer Award winner for Best Paperback Original Novel.
For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive.
After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice—and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the living and the dead. Despite colleagues’ doubts about her mental state, she resumes her role at Homicide. Her new partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, doesn’t trust her sanity, and he has a story of his own he’d rather keep hidden. But a killer is on the loose, murdering young women, so the detectives have no choice: they must work together to catch the madman before he strikes again. And no one knows madmen like Jude Fontaine.
Thank you!
Once again, thank you for your continued support! I hope you enjoy the new book, and, as always, please consider leaving an Amazon review.
~ Anne
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February 9, 2018
Free Book With Newsletter Signup!
Please enjoy this free copy of Hush! Just sign up for my newsletter to receive information on new releases! Even though Hush came out several years ago, it remains one of my most popular titles and has over 500 5-star reviews.
~Anne
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About the book:
It’s criminal profiler Ivy Dunlap’s job to unravel the psyches of the most dangerous men alive. None haunts her dreams more than the killer who took her son’s life sixteen years ago, then silently disappeared into the dark. Now an urgent request for help from the Chicago police has reawakened Ivy’s greatest nightmare. The Madonna Murderer has returned to fulfill his calling. This time Ivy understands the killer and will face her greatest fear to stop him from killing again.
Publishers Weekly
Few serial killers penned by suspense writers today are as warped or as fully realized as the Madonna Murderer, who preys on newborn baby boys and their unwed mothers. As if the crime itself isn’t bad enough, the killer leaves a musical snow globe that plays “Hush, Little Baby” in the infant’s crib as his calling card. It has been nearly two decades since Ivy Dunlap and her infant son were victimized by the Madonna Murderer. Unbeknownst to the killer, Ivy survived the assault. Her baby didn’t. Now a respected criminal psychologist, Ivy is called into service by the Chicago P.D. when the killer resurfaces after 16 years of dormancy. Her personal interest in the case takes on a sharper edge when she learns that her partner, Detective Max Irving, has a son named Ethan who is the same age her child would have been had he survived. When Ivy tries to rattle the Madonna Murderer by publishing a “dead-baby letter” in the newspaper, the killer becomes more daring; he befriends Ethan, sends Ivy a chunk of his skin bearing a tattoo and expands his profile of victims. Although some readers may be turned off by the novel’s graphic nature, a wealth of procedural detail, a heart-thumping finale and two scarred but indelible protagonists make this a first-rate debut.
“With Hush, Anne Frasier slams into the fast lane and goes to the head of the pack.” Jayne Ann Krentz “Warning: Don’t read this book if you are home alone.” Lisa Gardner …a wealth of procedural detail, a heart-thumping finale and two scarred but indelible protagonists make this a first-rate debut. — Publishers Weekly
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January 6, 2018
Do Living Spaces Define Our Inner Selves?
I was lying awake at 4:00 a.m., thinking about a house I recently bought that I simply can’t connect with no matter what I do to make it feel like home. And I started thinking back to all the living spaces I’ve occupied in the last twenty years, and came to the uneasy realization that it’s not them, it’s me. I’m weak. I’ve allowed living spaces to define me. I don’t feel good about this, because I want to be the SAME rendition of me no matter where I am. And I hate to think that my sense of self is so shaky that it can change the moment I step into a building. But this is my reality. I’ve gone through numerous inner selves in numerous different places, shedding and sluffing, but mostly taking on whatever the living-space vibe demands of me.
Let’s start with the house I can’t connect with. There, I’m a lost soul shuffling from room-to-room with no compass, plucking at her nightgown and fretting about a life gone horribly awry.
Then there’s the condo. Ten years ago, I briefly rented a condo (WTF was I thinking?) in what should have been a delightful and charming Victorian. Instead, inside those walls, I took on the form of a shadow person who spent her days dealing with slumlords, gangs of mice, and leaking roofs. From the apartment above, bad music seeped through the ceiling and a young mother shrieked at her boyfriend while her kids played video games and roller-bladed in the living room.
Before that, it was a tidy bungalow in a somewhat upscale area of Saint Paul. I was an imposter, knowing I didn’t belong, but unable to pinpoint why I was so unworthy. It gave me little comfort that another outsider, Sara Jane Olson, previously of the Symbionese Liberation Army and now a cookbook author, lived nearby. In that house, I eventually became one with a permanent state of unease, enough to remain four years.
In my problematic and impractical church home, I’m confident and focused and at peace most of the time. No nightgown plucking or slipper shuffling. In the church house, I feel I’m my truest self, but this could all be a lie. The house could be tricking me, but it’s a trick I’m willing to embrace.
The big question. Why do spaces shape our inner selves? And how do they do it so quickly, sometimes within moments of stepping in the door? Am I just that weak? Or, because I’m a writer, am I more open to suggestion? Must I become what the dwelling suggests? Why can’t I be me wherever I am? Do others experience this, but don’t recognize it? Or is this common knowledge and I’m blabbing about something everybody else has always understood?
DO LIVING SPACES DEFINE OUR INNER SELVES?
I was lying awake at 4:00 a.m., thinking about a house I recently bought that I simply can’t connect with no matter what I do to make it feel like home. And I started thinking back to all the living spaces I’ve occupied in the last twenty years, and came to the uneasy realization that it’s not them, it’s me. I’m weak. I’ve allowed living spaces to define me. I don’t feel good about this, because I want to be the SAME rendition of me no matter where I am. And I hate to think that my sense of self is so shaky that it can change the moment I step into a building. But this is my reality. I’ve gone through numerous inner selves in numerous different places, shedding and sluffing, but mostly taking on whatever the living-space vibe demands of me.
Let’s start with the house I can’t connect with. There, I’m a lost soul shuffling from room-to-room with no compass, plucking at her nightgown and fretting about a life gone horribly awry.
Then there’s the condo. Ten years ago, I briefly rented a condo (WTF was I thinking?) in what should have been a delightful and charming Victorian. Instead, inside those walls, I took on the form of a shadow person who spent her days dealing with slumlords, gangs of mice, and leaking roofs. From the apartment above, bad music seeped through the ceiling and a young mother shrieked at her boyfriend while her kids played video games and roller-bladed in the living room.
Before that, it was a tidy bungalow in a somewhat upscale area of Saint Paul. I was an imposter, knowing I didn’t belong, but unable to pinpoint why I was so unworthy. It gave me little comfort that another outsider, Sara Jane Olson, previously of the Symbionese Liberation Army and now a cookbook author, lived nearby. In that house, I eventually became one with a permanent state of unease, enough to remain four years.
In my problematic and impractical church home, I’m confident and focused and at peace most of the time. No nightgown plucking or slipper shuffling. In the church house, I feel I’m my truest self, but this could all be a lie. The house could be tricking me, but it’s a trick I’m willing to embrace.
The big question. Why do spaces shape our inner selves? And how do they do it so quickly, sometimes within moments of stepping in the door? Am I just that weak? Or, because I’m a writer, am I more open to suggestion? Must I become what the dwelling suggests? Why can’t I be me wherever I am? Do others experience this, but don’t recognize it? Or is this common knowledge and I’m blabbing about something everybody else has always understood?
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January 5, 2018
NETGALLY REVIEWERS!
I’ve been trying to get the rights back to this book forever. Doesn’t look like it will happen, BUT I retained the rights to publish the book outside the U.S. and Canada, so that’s what I’m doing.
Please note: Due to publishing rights and restrictions, this edition of The Orchard is not available for purchase in the USA or Canada. You will NOT be able to leave a review on Amazon. com. Please leave reviews on Amazon.co. uk, Amazon.com.au, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, etc.
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July 20, 2017
THE BODY READER WINS BEST ORIGINAL PAPERBACK AWARD
I’ve been at this writing thing for over thirty years. For the most part I’ve toiled in obscurity, keeping my head down while simply hoping my stories entertain people for a few hours. And yet…there’s always the dream that the next one will be THE book—the breakout everybody talks about. I suspect that’s what keeps a lot of us going. The compelling hope for a hit and recognition. I’m here. This is my life’s work. Did it touch you in some way? Am I still learning and still growing? Is every...
June 3, 2017
TRULY DEAD RELEASE
Truly Dead, the fourth book in the Elise Sandburg series, is now available!
About the new release: In award-winning author Anne Frasier’s riveting thriller Truly Dead, homicide detective Elise Sandburg returns to Savannah with her partner, profiler David Gould, to track a killer who seems eerily familiar.When a demolition crew uncovers several bodies inside the walls of a house where serial killer Frank J. Remy once lived, the discovery sends shock waves through the Savannah Police Departme...
