

After several years of success in that field, Hoag switched her focus to single-title suspense novels. Hoag began her career as an author in 1988, writing category romances for the Bantam Books Loveswept Line. She married and divorced Daniel Hoag, whom she had dated in high school.

Before publishing her first novel, she also worked as a photographer's assistant, trained show horses, and sold designer bathroom accessories. Hoag's first job after graduating from high school was in the La Crosse Tribune circulation department. "I found books at a really young age and fell in love with books." "I had to spend a lot of time entertaining myself," she told an interviewer in 2016. From childhood, she knew she wanted to be a writer. Hoag was born in Cresco, Iowa and raised in the small town of Harmony, Minnesota, where her father sold insurance. More than 22 million copies of her books are in print. Dark Paradise.Tami Hoag (born Tami Mikkelson January 20, 1959) is an American novelist, best known for her work in the romance and thriller genres. Someone with secrets worth killing for-and the power to turn this beautiful haven into a. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Now it's up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend's death.

New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Once before, Laurel's cries against a monstrous evil went unanswered. But when a ruthless predator strikes too close to home, she's lured into a perverse game from which there may be no escape.

That once-burning obsession had destroyed her credibility, her career, her marriage-and nearly her sanity. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town's placid surface for the truth-except the killer.Īttorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspicion by the locals, including the sheriff. When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she's able to wash away the blood-but not the terror.
