Julie Kramer is fourth generation of a strong family which raised cattle and farmed corn for 130 years along the Minnesota-Iowa state line. Her favorite days were spent waiting for the bookmobile. She grew up to become a freelance television producer for NBC News. Before that she won numerous national investigative awards at WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. Julie tired of fictional TV reporters always being portrayed as obnoxious secondary characters who could be killed off whenever the plot started dragging. So her debut thriller, STALKING SUSAN, features a TV reporter as a heroine who discovers a serial killer is targeting women named Susan. She now lives with her family in White Bear Lake, MN.