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My Friends, "Where do you get your ideas?" It's the most common question people ask me, and the answer for KILLER SMILE is simple: From the heart. The idea for my new book came to me when my father, shortly before he passed away last year, revealed to me a family secret - that my grandparents had registered as "enemy aliens" during World War II. (On the right is a copy of my grandfather's alien registration card.) My grandparents had violated no law, but they were Italian-born and had to register as enemies, under presidential orders better-known for registering and interning Japanese-Americans. In fact, at the same time that the Scottolines were considered enemies of the country, their son, Lisa's father Frank Scottoline, was serving in the United States Air Force, fighting against the Axis powers. This obscure footnote, both personal and historical, inspired me to do the research that would take me from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. to Fort Missoula in Montana - and I learned that 600,000 Italian-Americans registered as enemy aliens and 10,000 were imprisoned in internment camps during that time. I spun that into KILLER SMILE - a fast-paced thriller about murder, family, and justice, which stars Mary DiNunzio. Mary gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then finds a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, she begins to suspect that the case she's been working on - involving the suicide of an Italian-American in the internment camp at Fort Missoula - may not be ancient history after all. So pick up KILLER SMILE. You'll learn something, you'll get scared, you'll laugh - and you won't be able to put it down. I'll be hitting the road in June for a month long tour, and if you are able, please be sure to come by one of my events and say hi. Thanks so much for all of your support, and I appreciate each and every one of you. Love, Lisa