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Katia Lief

Katia Lief is an American author known for her crime fiction, psychological thrillers, and literary fiction. Born in France to American parents, she soon moved back to the East Coast of the United States, where she was raised. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she returned to Paris, but later went back to the U.S. to pursue a publishing career in New York, among other jobs, and earned her Master’s in literature and creative writing. She has published works under her birth name, Katia Spiegelman, as well as Kate Pepper, and has ultimately settled on Katia Lief. She is the author of the Karin Schaeffer series. Katia Lief's journey as a published author began in 1993 with her novel Peculiar Politics, released under the name Katia Spiegelman. This novel was later re-issued in 2005 as Peculiar Politics: Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride and subsequently republished as Love, Sex & the Wrong Bride by Katia Lief. In 2004, she introduced her pen name Kate Pepper with the novel Five Days in Summer. Since 2010, she has been writing as Katia Lief, starting with the novel You Are Next. Below is a list of Katia Lief’s books in the order of their initial release:

Katia Lief became a published novelist in 1990 with the novel Soul Catcher (As: Katia Spiegelman). Below is a list of Katia Lief's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Karin Schaeffer Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
You Are Next (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Next Time You See Me / Hide and Seek (2010) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Vanishing Girls / The 12th Victim (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Gift (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Money Kill / Dead Rich (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Domino Killer (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Soul Catcher (As: Katia Spiegelman) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Peculiar Politics: Love, Sex and the Wrong Bride (As: Katia Spiegelman) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Five Days in Summer / Five Days to Die (As:Kate Pepper) (2004) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Here She Lies (As:Kate Pepper) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Seven Minutes to Noon (As:Kate Pepper) (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
One Cold Night (As:Kate Pepper) (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Cartoons: The Rise and Fall of Rocky Love (As: Katia Spiegelman) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Names of the Dead / Watch You Die (As:Kate Pepper) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Waterbury (As:Kate Pepper) (2011) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
House of a Thousand Eyes (2021) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
Invisible Woman (2024) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Heartbeat (2012) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Beautiful Years (2016) Buy on Amazon.com Not available
The Orchid Grower (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Not available

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