Susan Froetschel is the author of four previous novels--Fear of Beauty (named top mystery/suspense by the Military Writers Society of America and nominated for a Mary Higgins Clark Award), Alaska Gray, Interruptions, and Royal Escape. She has taught at Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University. She lives in Michigan and is currently an editor with YaleGlobal Online at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International Studies.
♦ 2014 Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee ♦ WINNER! 2014 Military
Writers Society of America Book Award, Thriller/Mystery: Gold Medal
♦ WINNER! 2014 Middle East Outreach Council's 2014 Youth Literature
Award ♦ WINNER! 2014 National Federation of Press Women
Communications 2nd Place, Best Novel For Adult Readers
♦ 2014 Love Is Murder Best Suspense Lovey Nominee
"An exceptionally well-written tale of love, loss, trust, and greed
with appeal that reaches far beyond mystery fans." --Publishers
Weekly "A great societal thriller.... Action-packed, readers will
feel they are in [Afghanistan].... One of the top novels of the
year...." --Mystery Gazette "This fictional woman halfway across
the world isn't so different from you and me. Froetschel has great
respect for the Afghan culture and deftly provides a slice-of-life
tale that moves, informs and even surprises." --Shelf Awareness
"Froetschel pulls the reader in almost from the first word with her
dynamic plot twists."
--Women's Book Reviews "Susan Froetschel makes the Afghanistan
conflict real on a personal level, in a tale rich with
thought-provoking themes. . . . Fear of Beauty is a wonderful
novel."
--Sandra Parshall, Agatha Award-winning author of Bleeding Through
"Froetschel is a superb storyteller. She brings the rugged beauty
of Afghanistan, its simple folk, and its many dangers together in a
spine-tingling tale."
--Nayan Chanda, author of Bound Together
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