Susan Kraus is a therapist, mediator and writer. In "Fall From Grace, " she uses her decades of professional experience to take readers into therapy sessions, marriages and courtrooms --- as well as the mind of a killer. Her character driven plots tackle divisive social and political issues, raising questions with no easy answers. Kraus lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with her husband and two almost-launched kids. She is the author of "Fall From Grace" and "All God's Children, " and is working on the third novel in the Grace McDonald series to be released in the spring of 2015.