So exciting! “Come and Find Me” has been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award! Winner to be announced at the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards cocktail party in New York on April 25. I’ll be there!

Live, 1/16/12 at 8 AM, hear Hallie on RadioNewEngland on BlogTalkRadio. Stream it from the archives after.

Hallie and her sister Delia talked about the ups and downs of being sisters on WBUR Radio Boston. Hear the podcast! Were we competitive or what??

• “Come and Find Me is a tightknit whydunnit, movie-ready and Xanax-friendly. Ephron’s prose makes Diana’s panic attacks as palpable as a charging rhino. Her insight into computer technology is as fascinating as a trip inside Tron.” — Madison Herald

• “['Come and Find Me'] is a very entertaining follow-up to Ephron’s hugely successful thriller debut, ‘Never Tell a Lie,’ which was recently turned into the Lifetime movie, ‘And Baby Will Fall.’” — Joe Meyers, Connecticut Post

• “Though she was late to the literary table by family standards, let’s not overlook Hallie Ephron’s own writing chops: four nonfiction books, the five-title psychological-suspense Dr. Peter Zak series, and two out-of-series thrillers. The first, ‘Never Tell a Lie,’ was made into a Lifetime Network movie titled ‘And Baby Will Fall.’ The second, ‘Come and Find Me,’ is The Bee Book Club’s choice for April.” — Sacramento Bee

• “‘Come and Find Me’ is a well-plotted and entertaining mystery. [It's] a lightning-quick read, and the suspense will keep you turning the pages from the first to the very last.” — Times-News, Burlington, NC

• “[COME AND FIND ME is] a suspenseful tale of high-tech skulduggery that even low-tech readers will appreciate.” — Booklist

• “Psychologically astute and emotionally gripping, author Ephron … brings readers into Diana’s anguished mind so completely that no shoot-outs or car crashes are necessary for us to feel terror along with her … A unique and compelling novel to be read more than once.” — Mystery Scene

• “In COME AND FIND ME, Ephron excels in creating an authentic view of an agoraphobic — for whom the mere thought of walking down the driveway to the mailbox can be immobilizing.” — Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel

• “[Hallie Ephron] does a solid job of carrying the suspense genre into the 21st century. … Diana’s journey, both geographically and psychologically, is the novel’s most compelling feature….” — Ed Siegel Boston Globe

• “Wow! Another unputdownable book… I kept thinking–just one more chapter.” — Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha-award winning author of DRIVE TIME

• “Hallie Ephron started out very strongly with NEVER TELL A LIE, her fiction debut. COME AND FIND ME takes that work and cubes it in terms of readability and characterization. …[T]he book has … all but begs for a film adaptation. The star, however, is Diana, a character who, I suspect, shares her more significant strengths with her creator.” — Joe Hartlaub, Book Reporter

• “[I] very much enjoyed COME AND FIND ME – was certainly caught off-guard by the late-game twists!” — Sarah Weinman, News Editor for Publishers Marketplace

• “[COME AND FIND ME], a compelling yarn of deception and danger… Ephron’s page-turner is also a cautionary tale about the power of information technology, and Diana is an intriguing character.  And although this novel seems to be a stand-alone, readers can hope that a sequel is not out of the question.” — Richmond Times Dispatch Bookbag

• “The details of hacking and then tracking down the hackers are fascinating, a whole other world, literally and figuratively. But aside from that, Ms. Ephron has written another page-turning novel that is thoroughly enjoyable, and recommended.” — Spinetingler Mag

“And Baby Will Fall” is now on the Lifetime Movie Network and starring Anastasia Griffith, Brendan Fehr, and Clea Duval

Read Hallie’s essay on mylifetime.com: Novelist Sees Characters Brought to Life

Reviews are in:

• “This is a good, suspenseful movie that twists and turns and has many surprises. It may even shock you with how it turns out. I enjoyed it a lot.” TV Megasite
• “A psychological thriller played out beautifully by Griffith and Fehr. … [An]attention-grabbing original TV movie.” — Suite 101

Never Tell a Lie is now out in paperback. More news…

• Finalist for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
• Finalist for Readers Choice Award, Salt Lake City Libraries
• Winner of the David Award for best mystery novel of 2009
• “First Things” recommends Never Tell a Lie among best in 2009
• Featured on Channel 5 Chronicle
• Barnes & Noble “Recommended”
• Foreign rights sold: French, German, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Spanish, and Ukranian