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Bad People Do Good Things, Good People Do Bad Things

"Conventional, stock figures" as characters in stories told in a "serene, anonymous" voice are necessary to fairy tales, but not to character-driven stories. How often have you begun a novel, only to stop reading long before the end because the characters are flat, not believable, or boring because they never get beyond "means, motive, opportunity"?

Rene Denfeld, author of four best-selling novels---The Enchanted, The Child Finder, The Butterfly Girl and Sleeping Giants---has won important prizes, including the French Prix, and an ALA Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She has a Carnegie Listing, plus a listing for the International Dublin Literary Award; she was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Margaret Atwood praised Rene's writing as "astonishing."

She is a licensed death row investigator, past Chief Investigator for a public defender. Her first-hand, face-to-face experiences working on hundreds of cases, including exonerations and helping trafficking victims, illuminate her novels. 

Rene lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is the happy parent of kids from foster care.