Welcome to Lauren Carr's Website!
Lauren Carr is the author of the Joshua Thornton Mysteries. She fell in love with mysteries when her mother read Perry Mason to her at bedtime. From murderous bedtime tales, she grew up to write mysteries for television and the stage. She wrote her first book after giving up her writing career to be a stay-at-home mom.
The first installment in the Joshua Thornton mysteries, A Small Case of Murder was named a finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award 2005. Her second full-length book, A Reunion to Die For was released nationally in hardback in June 2007 by Five Star First Edition Mysteries.
Reviewers have applauded Lauren Carr's mysteries:
It takes a special kind of writer to really pull off a good mystery without pulling any punches, taking any shortcuts, or losing the reader's commitment all the way up to the final page. Lauren Carr is one of those special writers.
Daniel Jolley, Amazon.com's Top 50 Reviewer
Carr proves herself an adept storyteller, juggling motives, clues, relationships, and red herrings like a pro.… Carr's talent is obvious. For mystery lovers, this is a fun, rollicking ride... Hang onto your first editions of this book, as Carr has the ability to break into future best seller lists.
Debbie Lee Wesselmann (the
Both A Small Case of Murder and A Reunion to Die For are now available in audio (including MP3 download) by Books in Motion. Click Here to Order today from Lauren's bookstore!
Meanwhile, Lauren has written the first book in a new series, It’s Murder, My Son, which takes place at Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, where Lauren and her family vacation. After being taken to the cleaners in a messy divorce, homicide detective Mac Faraday inherits two hundred and seventy million dollars from his birth mother, mystery writer Robin Spencer, and begins a new life that unfolds like one of his mother’s world famous novels.