Alice Blanchard is the award-winning author of "Trace of Evil," "Darkness Peering," "A Breath After Drowning," "The Breathtaker,” “Life Sentences” and “The Stuntman’s Daughter” for which she won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. She has received a PEN Award, a New Letters Literary Award, and a Centrum Fellowship.

"Trace of Evil” was awarded an Indie Next Pick, a Loanstars Most Anticipated Books Pick, and an Amazon Best Mysteries/Thrillers for December 2019. "Darkness Peering" was a New York Times' Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Best Mystery. Her thriller "The Breathtaker" was an official selection of NBC’s Today Show Book Club. Her work has been published in 17 countries.

"Trace of Evil" is the first novel in the Natalie Lockhart series, which follows a female rookie detective investigating the death of a popular high school teacher that has eerie ties to the murder of a teenage girl 20 years ago. The series will unearth an even darker story involving a history of witch accusation and obsession with black magic deep in the woods of the idyllic suburban community of Burning Lake, New York.

“My goal is to write fiction that marries the sweeping scope of the thriller with the more personal epiphanies of the short story.”