Carlton Smith wrote the "New York Times" bestselling "The Search for the Green River Killer". An award-winning journalist for "The Los Angeles Times" and "The Seattle Times" during the 1970s and 1980s, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1988. His books include "Mind Games, Cold Blooded, The Prom Night Murders", "Cold as Ice" and "In the Arms of Evil". There are more than two million copies of his books in print.