Lynn Erickson, Aspen's Hometown Author Harriet Klausner writes: "HUSBAND AND LOVER is a fabulous legal thriller with a terrific subplot involving the romance between the caring Julia and likable Cam. The storyline displays the defense team putting together its strategy and ultimately its case led by the fabulous Ellen whose work in court is fantastic to follow...fans will appreciate this strong drama and clamor for an Aspen-Denver sequel starring the legal combatants Ellen and Bret." We gotta tell you, this is positively our best Aspen thriller yet, ripped from the headlines and exquisitely timed—with absolutely no intentional connection to the real-life trial that filled the news—Husband and Lover is a must-read. Is the brilliant, sexy husband hero or killer? Will the jury buy his alibi; will the local Aspenites be able to overlook eyewitness testimony to convict their hometown hero of the most blood-curdling crime? Well, we aren't telling, that's for sure. One thing we can tell you—Husband and Lover is a true page-turner. You're going to love it! Here's another question. Is Nick Sinestra a backstabbing, self-serving, scoundrel or all-American hero? After Hours enjoys terrific reviews across the board. We know you'll rave about our gorgeous bad-boy NYPD detective as he trails Portia from the big city to the Wild West, bringing down a heap of trouble on her already overburdened shoulders. And don't forget to pick up a copy of Without a Trace. We got "A Perfect 10" from Catherine McHenry of Romance Review Today. And a launch book for Berkley's Sensation, In the Cold, is still readily available. Meanwhile, in real-life—what's up with us? As always, our hometown of Aspen is providing us with a lot of plots for new books. So many, in truth, we're deciding which to go with. There's the latest legal battle between movie stars, and a messy attempted murder that is so crazy, so unbelievable, we're afraid the book would read more like Sci-Fi than reality. We'll keep you posted, though, soon as we make the big decision. Now about us...Lynn Erickson, our alter ego, was born thirty years and over fifty books ago. "Lynn" sprang from us, her birth mothers, fully-grown, fully dressed, doubly opinionated and stuffed with stories. In the late 60s, both newly returned from bumming around the world, we met in Aspen, Colorado, in the Red Onion, an Old West saloon. We were both new brides, wet behind the ears. It was several years later that we dreamed up Lynn Erickson, the pseudonym a combination of our husbands’ names. We had read every romance put out in the early 70s and started saying, "We can do better than this." Well, we couldn’t, but what the heck? We wrote two fat novels before we chanced onto an agent and made a sale. His first words to us: "The manuscript is flawed, but..." Our early books were historical romances, full of blood and guts and murder, then we turned to contemporary women’s suspense. We've set almost all of our books in Colorado, especially in Aspen, a town where the truth is usually stranger than fiction. Aspen is a character in our books, not just a setting. We love to drop inside jokes about the quirks and fancies of our hometown. The scenery truly is glorious, the mountains magnificent, the skiing and hiking and fishing and horseback riding legendary. We cover the arts, too—the world-renowned music festival, the shops full of museum-quality paintings and sculptures. Southwestern art is big, of course: paintings and pottery and Navajo rugs. We've done several stories about the Anasazi Indians because the subject fascinates us. We've written about the death penalty in Colorado, vigilante justice at the Food and Wine Festival in Aspen, an illegal adoption ring in Tucson, Arizona, a stalker with multiple personality disorder in Denver, a kidnapped child in Monument Valley, gold mining in Cripple Creek, Moki poachers in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. You name it—if there’s a story of adventure or intrigue, we've made it into a book. Our research has found us taking notes deep in a played out gold mine, sneaking into the DA’s office in Boulder, cornering Cripple Creek’s handsome sheriff, interviewing the public defender in Denver. People love to talk when you tell them you're researching a novel. Here's to a terrific year, Molly and Carla (Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen) Contact Lynn Contact Webmaster Designed and hosted by