Photographer: Patti Bose

Latest Book:
Dark Alchemy

Lovett's novels have been described as thrillers, noir murder mysteries, psycho-thrillers, and a hard-edged forensic series. Her heroine is a forensic psychologist who works in New Mexico and Southern California.

This site has information about Lovett's books (including excerpts), links to book vendors and other sites, as well as a crime and punishment forum, which presents essays by psychiatrists, psychologists, criminologists, inmates--and citizens who have opinions on the criminal justice system.

Bookseller and web maven Maggie Griffin (of Partners & Crime, NYC) and Lovett awaiting nourishment in Santa Fe , NM. Photograph: Sarah Shankman, crime novelist

Author's note:
"In the process of researching and writing this series over a period of several years, my life came to mirror that of Dr. Strange.

I spent hours inside prisons talking with and interviewing inmates, I attended forensic psychology and psychiatry conferences and network with experts in the field, and I've been a speaker at criminal justice meetings.

I obtained a degree in criminal justice --a step away from my creative roots in theater, dance, and writing. In a way, the more closely my life has come to parallel Dr. Strange's life, the more freedom and autonomy she's gained. I've relaxed my grip on Sylvia- she has more fun and takes more risks. But one thing hasn't changed: we're both intense, we've both come close to the edge, and we both share a psychic hot-spot, a fascination with psychopathology or, more fancifully said, the 'dark side' of human nature."