Lori Armstrong is the two-time Shamus Award winning author of Snow Blind, in the Julie Collins mystery series, and No Mercy, in the Mercy Gunderson series. She has also won the WILLA Cather Literary Award for Hallowed Ground and was nominated for a High Plains Book Award for Shallow Grave. Lori also writes under the pen name Lorelei James, and is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary erotic romances. She lives in western South Dakota.