Her debut Bait won the 1968 Edgar Award for best crime novel.She went on to become a hugely popular bestselling novelist. She died from a self-administered drug overdose in July 2006.Patrolman Aaron Levine kept his eyes on the traffic aheadof him as he tried to gauge the mood of the sergeant.

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