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Brandilyn Collins Bio
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Brandilyn Collins Brandilyn Collins is a best-selling novelist known for her trademark Seatbelt Suspense™. These harrowing crime thrillers have earned her the tagline “Don’t forget to b r e a t h e …®” She writes for Zondervan, the Christian division of HarperCollins Publishers. Brandilyn’s first book, A Question of Innocence, was a true crime published by Avon in 1995. Its promotion landed her on local and national TV and radio, including the Phil Donahue and Leeza talk shows.
Brandilyn is also known for her distinctive book on fiction-writing techniques, Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn From Actors (John Wiley & Sons), and often teaches at writers conferences.

Read more about Brandilyn at: www.BrandilynCollins.com

Contact Brandilyn at: brandilyn@brandilyncollins.com

Books By Brandilyn


Amber Morn
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan
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In book four of the Kanner Lake Series, a Saturday morning celebration at Java Joint coffee shop for the "Scenes and Beans" bloggers turns into terror when three gunmen burst into the coffee shop, shoot one person, and hold the rest hostage. Their demand: world attention. The stakes: the lives of over a dozen Kanner Lake citizens.

Brink of Death, Hidden Faces Series #1
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.
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Terror rocks Groves Landing when a woman is murdered after surprising an intruder. Twelve-year-old Erin witnessed the crime and works with artist Annie Kingston to construct a composite sketch. But Erin is traumatized and Annie is inexperienced in forensics. What if they lead detectives in the wrong direction . . . and the real killer remains free? 400 pages, softcover from Zondervan.

Coral Moon, Kanner Lake Series #2
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.

It's a typical morning for Leslie Williams---until she opens her car and discovers a dead body inside! Why was the corpse left there with a note pinned to its chest? The murder stuns an Idaho town with a macabre vision of dark spiritual forces. What appears to be true seems impossible. Or is it? 352 pages, softcover from Zondervan.

Crimson Eve, Kanner Lake Series #3
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.
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On a lovely evening in Kanner Lake, realtor Carla Radling shows an "English gentleman" a lakeside estate---and finds herself facing a gun. Somebody wants her dead! On the run, Carla uncovers secrets from her past that could destroy some very powerful people. What can stop the assassins from trying again? 352 pages, softcover from Zondervan.

Dead of Night, Hidden Faces Series #3
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.
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The Redding, California, area is terrorized by a serial killer with an unusual method for murder. Annie Kingston is called in to draw sketches of the victims' faces so they can be identified. As the body count rises, the pressure increases to find this heinous killer. The Sheriff thinks he's close--maybe too close. How can Annie--and her son--stay safe, as the killer closes in?

Stain of Guilt: Hidden Faces Series #2
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.
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For ths highly successful TV show American Fugitive, forensic artist Annie Kingston agrees to draw the updated face of Bill Bland, a cunning fugitive wanted for a double murder committed twenty years age. In studying the man and his crime, Annie knows she must descend into the mind of a killer--a mind of greed, darkness...and death. To render Bland as he would look today, Annie must intimately learn about h is traits, his health and personality. Just one habitual expression could alter the way his face has ages. But as she is pulled further into his world, someone wants to stop her--at any cost. To protect herself and her children, Annie must complete the drawing and pray it leads to the elusive Bland's arrest--before he can get to her.

Violet Dawn, Kanner Lake Series #1
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.
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From the author of the best-selling Eyes of Elisha comes a suspenseful tale of murder, the need to belong---and faith. As Paige Williams slips into her hot tub in the blackness of night, she feels something wispy brush against her. Suddenly facing death, what wrenching decision must she make about her hidden past? 352 pages, softcover from Zondervan.

Web of Lies, Hidden Faces Series #4
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By Brandilyn Collins / Zondervan Corp.
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A murder in broad daylight? How are they connected? After witnessing a shooting at a convenience store, forensic artist Annie Kingston must draw a composite of the suspect. But before she can begin, she hears that Chelsea Adams wants to meet with her now. Chelsea Adams the woman who made national headlines with her visions of murder. And this vision is by far the most chilling. Chelsea and Annie soon find themselves snared in a terrifying battle against time, greed, and a deadly opponent. If they tell the police, will their story be believed? With the web of lies thickening and their lives ultimately at stake, who will know enough to save them?

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Susan is passionate about Christian Suspense both as a reader and a writer. Susan is the author of seven Christian Suspense novels and she looks forward to the day her agent finds a publishing home for her work. Read more about Susan's . . .
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