About the author

Chris Karlsen

<p>Chris Karlsen is a retired police detective. She spent twenty-five years in law enforcement with two different agencies. The daughter of a history professor and a voracious reader, she grew up with a love of hisotry and books.<br /> An internationally published author, Chris has traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Near East, and North Africa satisfying her need to visit the places she read about. Having spent a great deal of time in England and Turkey, she has used her love of both places as settings for her books. &quot;Heroes Live Forever,&quot; which is her debut book, is set in England as is the sequel, &quot;Journey in Time,&quot; the third is &quot;Knight Blindness.&quot; They are part of her Knights in Time series. All three are available as a boxed set on Kindle. She is currently working on the fourth in the &quot;Knights in Time,&quot; series. &quot;Golden Chariot,&quot; is set in Turkey and the sequel, &quot;Byzantine Gold&quot; is set Turkey, Paris and Cyprus. They are part of her Dangerous Waters series.<br /> <br /> Her most recent release is called, &quot;Silk&quot; and is book one of a new series, The Bloodstone Series. It is a suspense set in Victorian London.<br /> Published by Books to Go Now, her novels are available in digital, ebook, and Android App. and in paperback. &quot;Heroes Live Forever&quot; is also in audio format.<br /> <br /> A Chicago native, Chris has lived in Paris and Los Angeles and now resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and four rescue dogs. A city girl all her life, living in a small village on a bay was a interesting adjustment. She&#39;d never lived anywhere so quiet at night and traffic wasn&#39;t bumper to bumper 24/7.<br /> Some of Chris&#39;s favorite authors are: Michael Connolly, John Sandford, Joseph Wambaugh, Stephen Coonts, Bernard Cornwell, Julia Quinn, Julie Anne Long, Deanna Raybourne and Steve Berry.</p>