Cassandra Grey is a crime thriller novelist who has a deep-seated fascination with serial killers. Maybe that’s because she’s been up close and personal with one: fresh out of college and working her first job in Salt Lake City, she used to give Ted Bundy rides to church. Ouch. Happily, she lived to tell the story.

She has also met a variety of other “criminals.” She took a college class with notorious hijacker Richard Floyd McCoy and attended a presidential inaugural ball where she shook hands with Teddy Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon.

She has authored a number of nonfiction books, but this is her debut novel. She has more than forty years of professional experience in corporate and internal communications, public relations, media relations, and publications management and has held communications management positions at a variety of corporations. Her most fascinating gig was as a press secretary to a United States Congressman in Washington, DC, where she sat in on a variety of riveting hearings, met a plethora of famous folks, and attended several State of the Union addresses.

She wrote an award-winning book-length poetry manuscript recognized by the governor of Utah. A former member of Sigma Delta Chi, she was named an Outstanding Young Woman of America.

Her interests include reading, writing, cooking, traveling, doing family history—and oh, yeah, serial killers. She has met five presidents of the United States, sailed up the Nile River, prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, eaten tempura in Tokyo, and received a dozen long-stemmed red roses from a stranger on the street in Athens.

In her blended family, she is the mother of nine and the grandmother of seven. She and her husband love to explore the mountains and have been to the most remote corners of the Intermountain West.