ABBOTT KAHLER will begin publishing under her legal name with her forthcoming work of nonfiction, THEN CAME THE DEVIL. She has previously published under the name Karen Abbott. Her books include the New York Times bestsellers THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK, LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY, AMERICAN ROSE, and SIN IN THE SECOND CITY. She has written for newyorker.com, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications, and has appeared on the History Channel, CBS Sunday Morning, AMC's "Making of the Mob," the Travel Channel's "Monumental Mysteries," and the Discovery Channel. THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK was an instant New York Times bestseller, an Edgar Award finalist for best fact crime, an Indie Next pick, an Amazon best book of 2019, and a Smithsonian Magazine top ten history book of 2019. The Wall Street Journal calls THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK “vibrant and enormously readable,” and names Abbott “one of the masters of the art” of narrative nonfiction.