“Looking for an FBI thriller? This is it! … You just want to don a badge and gun and delve in there yourself… The characters are real, honest, and gritty, and the ‘baddies’ get under your skin, willing you to unravel their psyche. I love a good thriller, and this did not disappoint.”
–The Kindle Review

Have you ever driven past a run-down and abandoned house and wondered about its history? Who had lived there, and what had happened to lead to its neglect? I must say that I do that quite often, but it was one place in particular that led my imagination down a dark path.

The building is on the outskirts of the city where I live and there are fields all around it. I don’t know what exactly about it led my thoughts to where they went, but my mind was buzzing with a what if. I envisioned underground burial chambers beneath the house…

Yes, I realize you probably don’t think this way, but what can I say? I am a crime author. I see murder and bodies even where there are none. Often when I take walks or go out in nature beauty eventually morphs into “what if I found a body here.” Yeah, I know. Maybe I need help. Maybe it’s a gift. Seeing as my crazy mind has brought us together, it can’t be a bad thing. 🙂

Anyway, it was these dark thoughts that inspired me to write my FBI thriller Eleven. And I must say that this book was a scary one to write! Heck, it was scary to plot out in my head. But it was the vivid nightmares that came during this time that kept me sleeping with one eye open! In fact, I wasn’t even going to write anymore books in this series. Eleven was planned to be a standalone, but due to popular demand—both from my readers and my characters, I had to write more.

In Eleven, Brandon takes on his first case as an agent with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit. He quickly finds out just how depraved serial killers can be. Eleven rooms, ten bodies, and one empty grave. Yeah, I’d shy away from that! And that’s not even getting into the ritualistic torture and murder method aspects. Let’s just say that I’m happy I can distinguish the difference between fiction and reality. Not to say that what I write hasn’t happened or isn’t happening right now… Shivers. :S

If you haven’t read Eleven yet, I encourage you download this book as my gift to you. If you have read it, I hope that it had you biting your nails! (Bad habit, really… But what I’m saying is, I hope it had the creep factor for you and kept you turning the pages.)

You might want to sleep with the lights on tonight…
Carolyn Arnold