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Charles Atkins

Charles Atkins is a practicing psychiatrist and member of the Yale Clinical Faculty. His first novel, "The Portrait (St. Martin's Press)," was published in 1998.

In addition to novels he has published two non-fiction books with Sourcebooks on Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer's Disease. He has had hundreds of articles and short stories in publications that range from the Journal of the American Medical Association to Writer's Digest. He has twice been featured in the New York Times Connecticut section and served as a consultant to the Reader's Digest Press Medical Breakthrough series.

Charles now has a GoodReads Author Page, where he is blogging.

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Best Place to Die

Retiree sleuths Lilian and Ada find that though their town might look postcard pretty, there's something rank festering below the surface . . .

Lilian Campbell and her best friend and lover, Ada Strauss, are woken early by the sound of sirens: the local nursing home, Nillewaug Village, is ablaze. The police and fire chiefs find evidence to suggest the fire was accidental, but Detective Mattie Perez can't help but wonder why the smoke alarms didn't work. Soon, it's looking less like accident and more like arson . . . and Lil and Ada are swept up into an investigation that grows increasingly more complex, and frightening, by the hour.

Vultures at Twilight

Something wicked has come to Grenville Connecticut a town famous for antiques and the systematic fleecing of its well-heeled elders as they down-size, sicken and die. Clearly, someone is unhappy with the status quo as high-end antique dealers are being murdered in gruesome--yet fitting--ways.

When a severed finger shows up at the Friday night auction, unlikely heroines Lil Campbell and Ada Strauss have to wonder--where's the rest of the body? A question that leads to festering small-town secrets, and the unraveling of a mystery that shows all is not well in a town famed for its postcard perfect New England charm.

For Lil and Ada, long-time friends and neighbors, the murders take a personal turn as unspeakable accusations are raised against Lil's dead husband and she becomes the focus of the killer's rage. And to make things worse--or better--the two friends are forced to confront powerful feelings for one another that threaten their idyllic lives.

Mother's Milk

Forensic psychiatrist Barrett Conyors is back

Barrett Conyors finds the discovery of the bodies of two heroin-addicted teens particularly hard to accept. Barrett's convinced that chief suspect Jerod, a homeless schizophrenic, didn't do it but she's the only one, apart from Detective Ed Hobbs, who is. But even Hobbs can't stop Barrett from following a complex trail of drugs and death that places her in the cross hairs of a killer . . .

Ashes, Ashes

From page one, the chase is on and many will die unnecessarily

Forensic psychiatrist, Ms Barrett Conyors knew that if Richard Glash weren't manacled to his chair, he would kill her. He had likely imagined every detail of her murder and then obsessively sketched the scene hundreds of times. At forty-two Richard, who'd spent all but four and a half years of his life locked away, had few interests, other than drawing and killing . . .