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used by the writing team formed by Molly Swanton and Carla Peltonen. Since 1980, they have written over 50 historical/ romantic suspense novels. The pseudonym Lynn Erickson is a combination of their husbands' names.


Personal background


Molly Swanton

Molly Swanton (
née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...
Butler) was born on September 12, 1946, in
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. During her youth, she attended the all-girls, college preparatory school Agnes Irwin School, which is located in
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. She has been a literary judge for the
Hammett Prize The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing. Established in 1991, ...
. , Swanton resides in Carbondale, Colorado, where she has lived with her husband, Terry Lynn Swanton, since 1966.


Carla Peltonen

Carla Peltonen (née Friedenberg) was born in
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. She is the daughter of Jerome and Leona (née Shenker) Friedenberg. She is a 1964 graduate of the
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in New York. , Peltonen resides in Aspen, where she has lived with her husband, Erik Peltonen, since 1969.


Published works


Single novels

* ''Sweet Nemesis'' (1980) * ''The Silver Kiss'' (1981) * ''A Woman of San Francisco'' (1982) * ''High Country Pride'' (1982) * ''Dawnfire'' (1984) * ''Snowbird'' (1984) * ''A Chance Worth Taking'' (1985) * ''Faces of Dawn'' (1985) * ''Lilacs'' (1985) * ''Some Distant Shore'' (1985) * ''Arena of Fear'' (1986) * ''Stormswept'' (1986) * ''A Dangerous Sentiment'' (1986) * ''A Perfect Gem'' (1987) * ''Tangled Dreams'' (1987) * ''Fool's Gold'' (1988) * ''Firecloud'' (1988) * ''Shadow on the Sun'' (1989) * ''In from the Cold'' (1989) * ''West of the Sun'' (1990) * ''Silver Lady'' (1991) * ''The Northern Light'' (1991) * ''A Wing and a Prayer'' (1992) * ''Paradox'' (1993) * ''Wildfire'' (1993) * ''Dancing in the Dark'' (1994) * ''Laurel and the Lawman'' (1994) * ''Out of the Darkness'' (1994) * ''Aspen'' (1995) * ''Apache Springs'' (1995) * ''Night whispers'' (1996) * ''Upon a Midnight Clear'' (1997) * ''The Eleventh Hour'' (1998) * ''Ripple Effect'' (1999) * ''Searching for Sarah'' (1999) * ''The Ranger and the Widow'' (2000) * ''On Thin Ice'' (2000) * ''Fugitive Mom'' (2001) * ''The Agent'' (2002) * ''On the Edge'' (2002) * ''In the Cold'' (2003) * ''Without a Trace'' (2003) * ''Husband and Lover'' (2004) * ''After Hours'' (2004)


Timetwist series (multi-author)

* ''The Last Buccaneer'' (1994)


Nine Months Later series (multi-author)

* ''The Baby Contract'' (1996)


Count on a Cop series (multi-author)

* ''Child of Mine'' (1998)


Heart of the West series (multi-author)

* ''Courting Callie'' (1999)


Collections

* ''Clouds of Suspicion'' (2000)


Omnibus In Collaboration

* ''Rocky Mountain Men'' (1997) (with Debbi Bedford and
Linda Randall Wisdom Linda Randall Wisdom is an American author of contemporary romance novels. Biography Wisdom began writing in 1978, and sold her first two novels, ''Dancer in the Shadows'' and ''Fourteen Karat Beauty'' to Silhouette Romance in 1979. After her su ...
) * ''Something to Hide'' (1999) (with
Tess Gerritsen Tess Gerritsen (born Terry Tom; June 12, 1953) is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician. Early life Tess Gerritsen is the child of a Chinese immigrant and a Chinese-American seafood chef. While grow ...
)


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Lynn Erickson
at Fantastic Fiction
Lynn Erickson
at Berkley/Jove Authors {{DEFAULTSORT:Erickson, Lynn American romantic fiction writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women novelists American women romantic fiction writers Agnes Irwin School alumni 21st-century American women