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Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Amy
grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating magna cum laude from
Harvard University, she began a career in journalism. Amy's first job out
of school was a yearlong stint at the Wilson Quarterly in Washington, D.C.
She then headed south, first to Nashville, Tennessee, where she spent two
years as a reporter at the Tennessean newspaper, and then to Mississippi,
where she spent six months reporting in the Delta town of Greenwood before
moving to Jackson, where she served as Capitol Correspondent for a group
of Mississippi papers. Eventually, a job offer from the state's higher
education commissioner lured Amy away from journalism, and she went on to
become the founding director of the Mississippi Teacher Corps, a
nationally renowned program that recruits outstanding college graduates to
teach in rural Mississippi school districts. After three intriguing years
in Mississippi, Amy decided to make her way back to the East Coast, where
she enrolled at Harvard Law School. Amy graduated with honors in 1993 then
moved to New York City, where she became associated with the firm of
Cravath, Swaine & Moore. After two sleep-deprived years in Cravath's
litigation department, Amy moved on to the firm of Parcher, Hayes &
Snyder, a litigation boutique with a substantial entertainment practice.
Two years later, Amy left Parcher, Hayes to write the book that eventually
became EQUIVOCAL DEATH. Amy's first foray into the world of fiction won
resounding praise from established writers. Nelson DeMille (The General's
Daughter, Up Country) described EQUIVOCAL DEATH as "a smart and powerful
novel of suspense from a gifted new writer." Jeffery Deaver (The Bone
Collector, The Stone Monkey) says EQUIVOCAL DEATH is "a marvelous
standout." EQUIVOCAL DEATH was a People Page-Turner of the Week, a Redbook
Editor's Pick and one of the Chicago Tribune's Best Books of 2001. Amy's
second novel, THE ANNIVERSARY, was published by Little, Brown in June 2003
along with the paperback edition of EQUIVOCAL DEATH, which was published
by Warner Books. THE ANNIVERSARY tells the story of three women, whose
lives are forever changed when they cross paths with a notorious serial
killer. On the fifth anniversary of his execution, each of these women
gets a private letter--a chilling message that lets them know that in
someone's dark imagination the killer's legacy lives on. THE ANNIVERSARY
will be featured in Reader's Digest Select Editions and is an alternate
selection of the Mystery Guild. Amy splits her time between Manhattan and
western Massachusetts. She is at work on another novel and welcomes e-mail
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