R. Barri Flowers
R. Barri Flowers is a prolific writer, living in the Pacific Northwest. A fan of
mystery, thriller, and romantic suspense fiction, he has a long background
in criminology and has used this to write both nonfiction and fiction books.
The author of more than thirty books, his nonfiction titles include the best
selling true crime book now in its seventh printing, The Sex Slave Murders
(St. Martin's Press, 1996), as well as Murders In The United States
(McFarland, 2004), Male Crime And Deviance (Charles C Thomas, 2003,
Murder, At The End Of The Day And Night (Charles C Thomas, 2002, Kids
Who Commit Adult Crimes (Haworth, 2002), Domestic Crimes, Family
Violence And Child Abuse (McFarland, 2000), Drugs, Alcohol And Criminality
In American Society (McFarland, 1999), and Female Crime, Criminals And
Cellmates (McFarland, 1995).

Fiction by Flowers includes the bestselling legal thrillers, Persuasive
Evidence (Dorchester, 2004) and Justice Served (Dorchester, 2005). Look
for his next powerful legal thriller from Dorchester, State's Evidence, to hit
the bookstore shelves in 2006.

R. Barri Flowers is a longtime member of Sisters in Crime, Romance
Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, American Crime Writers
League, American Society of Criminology, and Kiss of Death.
When not writing, he enjoys traveling (often to scope out new locations for
his thrillers) across the country and abroad; listening to jazz standards,
watching basketball, football, and baseball; classic movies, tennis, walking,
dancing, museums, and playing on the computer.
Visit the author’s website at: http://rbarriflowers.homestead.com

12 Mysteries + 12 Locations = MURDER ACROSS THE MAP - where Evil
knows no boundaries and Death doesn’t ask directions.

MURDER ACROSS THE MAP is evil, ironic, love sick, shocking, perverse,
surprising, sex-charged, charming, biblical, disingenuous, sinful, and
disarming. And that just describes the authors!

Crime stories for the armchair traveler. Where adventures in tourism can be
deadly.