<p><span style="font-size:14px;">Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Carla Norton has spent a lot of time in courtrooms, wedged between reporters and sketch artists. Her fascination with crime led her to write two books, PERFECT VICTIM and DISTURBED GROUND, which required visiting crime scenes, interviewing odd characters, and studying psychological and toxicological issues. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">              Carla wrote PERFECT VICTIM in collaboration with a prosecutor. The book was put on the reading list for the FBI’s Behavioral Sciences Unit, and became a </span><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>New York Times</em></span><span style="font-size:14px;"> bestseller.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14px;">              Carla has written for literary journals, newspapers, and magazines. </span>She twice served as a judge for the Edgar Awards<span style="font-size:14px;">. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree and loves talking about writing and literature. She has been a guest speaker at various writers’ conferences, and has appeared on </span><em>Geraldo</em><span style="font-size:14px;"> and </span><em>Larry King Live.</em></p>