Kelley Armstrong graduated with a degree in psychology and then studied computer programming. Now she is a full-time writer and parent and lives with her husband and three children in rural Ontario, Canada. She is the author of the Rockton mystery series featuring Detective Casey Duncan, which begins with “City of the Lost,” and the novel “Wherever She Goes.” She is the editor of the young adult anthology Life Is Short and Then You Die. In “A Stranger In Town: A Rockton Novel,” the next riveting thriller from #1 The New York Times’ bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, the paranoia increases, along with the stakes, as the town of Rockton tries to solve the latest mystery at their door. (amazon, 2021)

In “A Stranger In Town,” Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it is the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. It seems like something bigger is happening in the small town they call home. It is all hands on deck when an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, someone who seems to have come to the Yukon for a wilderness vacation but instead is now fighting for her life. What – or who – attacked this woman, and why? With the woman unconscious, and no leads, Casey and Eric do not know where the threat is coming from. Plus, the residents of their deeply secretive town are uneasy with this stranger in their midst. Everyone in Rockton wants this mystery solved – and fast. Excerpt available here.