Eric Rickstad is the New York Times, USA Today, and Globe & Mail Bestselling author of THE SILENT GIRLS, a psychological thriller heralded as intelligent and profound, dark, disturbing, and heartbreaking. His most recent novel is LIE IN WAIT. His first novel REAP, a literary crime novel, was a New York Times Noteworthy Novel. He lives in his home state of Vermont with his lovely wife, daughter and son.