One to the Wolves, On the Trail of a Killer

One to the Wolves, On the Trail of a Killer [Kindle Edition]

Lois Duncan

July 2013

198 pages, 19 photographs, 15 in color; 3 illustrations

Publisher: Planet Ann Rule, LLC 

ISBN: Kindle Edition 978-1-940018-02-7; $7.99

Available for download to Kindles, Nooks,

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In 1992, Lois Duncan, acclaimed author of fictional suspense novels, wrote a horror story she could never have imagined writing—a true account of the murder of her own daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette.

This sequel, “One to the Wolves: On the Trail of a Killer,” written almost 25 years after the 1989 murder, is even more horrifying than its predecessor.  

  

Kait, 18, was shot to death as she drove home from a friend’s house on a Sunday evening in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Police closed the unsolved case as a “random shooting,” refusing to accept information that indicated otherwise, although it had all the earmarks of a professional hit.

As new information poured in, the family ran for their lives, and their original suspicions turned out to be the tip of an iceberg so immense that Kait, herself, could not have known how dangerous the information was that she had been sitting on in order to protect a now-estranged boyfriend. 

That first book, “Who Killed My Daughter?” was Duncan’s desperate attempt to motivate informants and prevent the facts of Kait’s story from becoming buried. This second book reopens old questions and raises new information that demands that the case be reopened by the authorities.

“Chilling, gripping. A riveting true story of a mother’s fight for

justice.”—Ann Rule, noted crime genre author.  

Since Kait didn’t live to reveal the events surrounding her murder, her mother now does so in a book so intense and yet so painfully human that the reader will never forget it. All of the elements of a suspenseful mystery are here--intrigue, turns and twists, cover-ups, and page-turning action. The sobering fact is that, this time, the story isn’t fiction.

Perhaps most chilling is the fact that the cover art is an etching of a wolf that Kait made when she was ten years old. Is it possible that, even then, she was having nightmares about the predator who would come for her eight years later? This is probably the only occasion when a murder victim was the cover artist for a book about her own murder.

Duncan is the author of over 50 books, ranging from children's picture books to poetry to adult non-fiction.  She is best known for her young adult suspense novels, which have received Young Readers Awards in 16 states and three foreign countries. Eight of her novels have been made into motion pictures, including “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and “Hotel For Dogs.”

 “One to the Wolves,” is published as an ebook by Planet Ann Rule, a digital publisher bringing Ann Rule’s classic true crime catalog to new audiences in e-book format. Please direct media interview requests for Lois Duncan to kathiekerrpr@gmail.com.