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Laura Caldwell
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Laura Caldwell

Laura Caldwell, a former civil litigator, is a Scholar in Residence at Loyola Law School where she is also an award-winning law professor. Caldwell’s first book, Burning the Map, was selected by Barnes & Noble.com as one of The Best of 2002. Following that, A Clean Slate received a starred review from Booklist. Caldwell began publishing thrillers and suspense novels in 2005. Both her debut mystery, Look Closely, and The Rome Affair, the novel that pulled her into the Mosley case, received critical acclaim. Laura's newest, an international thriller called The Good Liar, has been heralded as "a massive achievement." She is published in ten languages and over... Read full bio

February 18, 2010
Writing Resolutions

It seems a lazy move to write at the end of the year about New Year
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February 18, 2010
Jason Pinter, a good writer friend, tweeted last week that he was "tinkering" with a manuscript. I tweeted back, "God is in the...
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February 18, 2010

I’m not a big fan of vilification, whether it's in fiction or in life. But more and...
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February 18, 2010
Life After Innocence client, Dean Cage, appeared on the Dr. Phil Show last week. During the show he got to meet the woman who...
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November 19, 2009
Well, its official - I'm writing four more Izzy books. I am into number four now. I don't have a title yet and can't decide if I...
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November 19, 2009
October was my month for travel. First, I went to Napa with girlfriends and bled the countryside of wine. Next, I went to the...
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Authors on the Web

Chicago Sun-Times, December 28, 2009
...m. at Chicago Public Library McKinley Park Branch, 1915 W. 35th St. JAN. 12 • Marcus Sakey and Laura Caldwell discuss the craft of writing crime fiction, 7 p.m. at the Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 S. Michigan, 22nd Floor. JAN. 13 • Elizabeth Gilbert...
Chicago Sun-Times, November 9, 2009
...journalists, playwrights and other artists. Events will take place every third Monday of the month. NOV. 17 • Laura Caldwell (Red Hot series), Theresa Schwegel (Last Known Address) and Libby Fischer Hellmann (Doubleback) will sign copies of their...
Chicago Lawyer, October 3, 2009
...gathering facts, investigating, looking at both sides and putting something together,? she said Former Worker & Power partner Laura Caldwell puts her writing skills to a different use. After working for several different firms in the Chicago area and...
Book Reporter, August 29, 2009
...Novelist Laura Caldwell is on the red hot carpet to becoming a household name. By the time you read the Izzy McNeil series (RED HOT LIES, RED BLOODED MURDER and RED, WHITE...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, August 11, 2009
...thought she did. Forester is at the center, and everyone has something to hide, even Izzy?s mother. Laura Caldwell has created an unlikely heroine in spunky Izzy McNeil. Izzy talks like a truck driver, looks like a flame-haired siren and displays an...
Book Reporter, July 31, 2009
...scandalous situations, and in RED BLOODED MURDER --- the second novel in a summer trilogy by rising star Laura Caldwell --- our redheaded, ?red hot? heroine once again finds herself a suspect in a police investigation. On the verge of turning 30, the...
Book Reporter, June 26, 2009
...RED HOT LIES, the first in a summer mystery trilogy by critically acclaimed author and law professor Laura Caldwell, offers more than little white lies to lead redheaded Chicago lawyer Izzy McNeil to her missing fiancé. The novel starts unfolding soon...
Chicago Sun-Times, May 31, 2009
...is definitely escapist, but it's true, blue -- or rather, red hot -- Chicago escapism. Legal eagle/author Laura Caldwell has not one, but three new books in a new mass market paperback series coming out this summer. Red Hot Lies, which officially...
Chicago Tribune, May 29, 2009
...Cristo Rey High School in Chicago and is working on a novel. Tasha AlexanderPanel Discussion: Murder She Wrote: Laura Caldwell, Catherine O'Connell, Tasha Alexander and Gillian Flynn, moderated by Libby Hellman. Sunday 3 p.m. Harold Washington Library...
Chicago Sun-Times, May 25, 2009
...copies of their books, 7 p.m. at Anderson's Bookshop, 123 W. Jefferson, Naperville. JUNE 3 * Laura Caldwell signs Red Hot Lies at her book launch party, 6 p.m. at Lizzie McNeil's, 400 N. McClurg. Hello Dave will perform. * Laurell K. Hamilton signs Skin...
Word Nerd, December 21, 2009
...Title: Red Blooded Murder (Izzy McNeil bk 2) Author: Laura Caldwell Genre: mystery Length: 453 pages Where Word Nerd's copy came from: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Plot Basics: Izzy is trying to piece her life back together after her...
Word Nerd, December 11, 2009
...Title: Red Hot Lies Author: Laura Caldwell Genre: mystery Length: ~400 pages Where Word Nerd's copy came from: Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library Plot Basics: Izzy McNeil is an up-and-coming Chicago attorney for whom life seems...
It's all about me!, November 5, 2009
...From Amazon ~ Former trial lawyer Caldwell launches a mystery series that weaves the emotional appeal of her chick lit titles with the blinding speed of her thrillers. Young, sassy Izzy McNeil, lead entertainment lawyer at Pickett Enterprises, has earned...
It's all about me!, November 5, 2009
...From Amazon ~ Former trial lawyer Caldwell launches a mystery series that weaves the emotional appeal of her chick lit titles with the blinding speed of her thrillers. Young, sassy Izzy McNeil, lead entertainment lawyer at Pickett Enterprises, has earned...
Palm Discovery.com, October 1, 2009
...s a FREE Audible file that you can download and enjoy. This time, it’s A Conversation with Laura Caldwell and Nancy Liem , the author and narrator of the Izzy McNeil mysteries series. Please keep in mind that the links to the free files were valid...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, September 15, 2009
...the Izzy McNeil mystery series over the course of three summer months, Harlequin 's MIRA division has extended Laura Caldwell a new deal for four more sequels, the first of which should be appearing sometime after September 2010, following the...
ME, MY BOOK AND THE COUCH, August 25, 2009
...stand: Swimsuit by James Patterson Killer by Sara Shepard Last Christmas by Kate Brian Red Hot Lies by Laura Caldwell What's on my night stand for September: The Penny Pinchers Club by Sarah Strohmeyer The Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale Hope in...
A Writer's Life, May 25, 2009
...comment sections of the blogs of professional authors. Take, for instance, this comment that she left on author Laura Caldwell's post at The Outfit : "The Hong Kong Connection" is a legal thriller about a gutsy female attorney who takes on high ranking...
Megan Crane's MySpace Blog, April 14, 2009
...FROM JUDY BLUME Edited by Jennifer O’Connell Contributors include: Megan Cabot, Megan McCafferty, Cara Lockwood, Melissa Senate, Laura Caldwell, Stacey Ballis, Shanna Swendson and 17 other acclaimed women writers (one of whom is yours truly!) “Fun...
Megan Crane's MySpace Blog, April 14, 2009
...FROM JUDY BLUME Edited by Jennifer O’Connell Contributors include: Megan Cabot, Megan McCafferty, Cara Lockwood, Melissa Senate, Laura Caldwell, Stacey Ballis, Shanna Swendson and 17 other acclaimed women writers (one of whom is yours truly!) “Fun...