Divorce By Grand Canyon: 8 Riveting True Crime Stories
by Elizabeth Engstrom
Genre: Crime Thriller, Suspense
Christian Longo.
Jeremy Bryan Jones.
Joel Patrick Courtney.
Patrick Wayne Kearney.
Russell Obremski.
Robert Spangler.
Gabriel Morris.
Killers all.
Veteran author Elizabeth Engstrom dives into the horrific stories of these seven serial killers, along with a glimpse into the maggoty world of forensic entomology. Why do these killers do what they do, how do they get away with it for so long, and what is their final undoing? Riveting true crime stories to make you lock your doors at night.
Elizabeth (Liz) Engstrom grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb where she lived with her father) and Kaysville, Utah (north of Salt Lake City, where she lived with her mother). After graduating from high school in Illinois, she ventured west in a serious search for acceptable weather, eventually settling in Honolulu. She attended college and worked as an advertising copywriter.
After eight years on Oahu, she moved to Maui, found a business partner and opened an advertising agency. One husband, two children and five years later, she sold the agency to her partner and had enough seed money to try her hand at full time fiction writing, her lifelong dream. With the help of her mentor, science fiction great Theodore Sturgeon, When Darkness Loves Us was published.
Engstrom moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1986, where she lives with her husband Al Cratty, the legendary muskie fisherman, and their Duck Tolling Retriever, Jook. Liz holds a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing and a Master of Arts in Applied Theology, both from Marylhurst University. A recluse at heart, she still emerges into public occasionally to speak at a writers conference, or to teach a class on various aspects of writing the novel, essay, article or short story. An avid knitter and gardener, she is on faculty at the University of Phoenix and is always working on the next book.
It takes me on average 9 months to write a book, if I’m not waylaid by some disaster, or if another novel doesn’t hijack me and take me on a ride. I have to constantly be on the lookout for incidental characters who fancy themselves to be so interesting that they want to take over the book. They will easily derail my work. Nine months is a long time to be dedicated to one project, particularly in the middle when it’s just work, work, work, and not a lot of creative juices are flowing the way they are when writing the opening and the ending. Sometimes in that desert of the middle, these characters pop up and become so interesting I’m tempted to follow them along to see where they go, but I work hard to suppress that. Usually, what I do with them is take them out of the story and give them a short story to star in, which I can write quickly, they’re satisfied, and I can then set them aside.
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