You might know Lois Duncan as the author of young adult suspense, thriller and horror novels. Lois was popular in the 1970’s and 1980’s with books like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin and Stranger with My Face. What you might not know is that Lois and her family would become caught up in a murder investigation over the death of her 18 year old daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, that felt straight out of one of Lois’s books.
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