Karen Rose

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Karen Rose
BornKaren Rose Hafer
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
GenreRomantic suspense
Notable awards RITA Award
Website
www.karenrosebooks.com

Karen Rose (born Karen Rose Hafer in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an internationally bestselling, RITA-award winning romantic suspense author. Rose was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. She met her husband, Martin, on a blind date when they were seventeen and after they both graduated from the University of Maryland (Karen with a degree in chemical engineering), they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen worked as a chemical engineer for a large consumer goods company, earning two patents, but as Karen says, “scenes were roiling in my head and I couldn't concentrate on my job so I started writing them down. I started out writing for fun, and soon found I was hooked.”

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Her debut suspense novel, Don't Tell, was released in July, 2003. Since then, she has published more than fifteen novels and two novellas. Her twenty-fifth novel, Say No More, was released in August 2020.

Karen's books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, London's Sunday Times, and Germany's Der Spiegel (#1), and the Irish Times, as well as lists in South Africa (#1) and Australia.

Her novels, I'm Watching You and Silent Scream, received the Romance Writers of America's RITA award for Best Romantic Suspense for 2005 and 2011. Five of her other books have been RITA finalists. To date, her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Karen's books are set in different US states. The books are connected, and characters from previous novels usually make appearances, even if they are not from those places. [1]

A former high school teacher of chemistry and physics, Karen lives in Florida with her husband of more than thirty years and her dog, Loki. [2]

Bibliography

2003 Don't Tell (Chicago Book 1)
2004 Have You Seen Her? (Raleigh)
2004 I'm Watching You (Chicago Book 2)
2005 Nothing to Fear (Chicago Book 3)
2005 Dirty Secrets (St. Petersburg, Florida novella, previously published in the anthology Hot Pursuit)
2006 You Can't Hide (Chicago Book 4)
2007 Count to Ten (Chicago Book 5)
2007 Die for Me (Philadelphia/Atlanta Book 1)
2009 Scream for Me (Philadelphia/Atlanta Book 2)
2009 Kill for Me (Philadelphia/Atlanta Book 3)
2009 I Can See You (Minneapolis Book 1)
2010 Silent Scream (Minneapolis Book 2)
2011 You Belong to Me (Baltimore Book 1)
2012 No One Left to Tell (Baltimore Book 2)
2012 Did You Miss Me? (Baltimore Book 3)
2013 Broken Silence (Baltimore Book 3.5, novella)
2013 Watch Your Back (Baltimore Book 4)
2014 Closer Than You Think (Cincinnati Book 1)
2015 Alone in the Dark (Cincinnati Book 2)
2016 Every Dark Corner (Cincinnati Book 3)
2017 Monster in the Closet (Baltimore Book 5)
2018 Edge of Darkness (Cincinnati Book 4)
2018 Death Is Not Enough (Baltimore Book 6)
2019 Say You're Sorry (Sacramento Book 1)
2019 Into the Dark (Cincinnati Book 5) [Release: Nov 14, 2019 (UK), Nov 26, 2019 (US) ] [3]
2020 Say No More (Sacramento Book 2)
2021 Say Goodbye (Sacramento Book 3)
2022 Quarter to Midnight (New Orleans Book 1)
2023 Cold Blooded Liar (San Diego Book 1)
2023 Beneath Dark Waters (New Orleans Book 2)

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References

  1. "Karen Rose Books in Order".
  2. "BIO". karenrosebooks.com. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
  3. "The Books". karenrosebooks.com. Retrieved August 27, 2019.