Wallet Warning! THE WOMAN WHO COULDN’T SCREAM is on Amazon’s Best of the Year list! When you look at this list, your wallet with scream (with joy!) Twenty. Great. Books. And yes, you remember correctly — last year BECAUSE I’M WATCHING (now available in paperback) was also one of Amazon’s Best of the Year. When… Read More

I did a quick video showing off my huge DEAD GIRL RUNNING poster, and someone had to get in the act. Hint: If you could zoom in, you would see blond dog hair all over my knees. Wait for it… More videos: Tour of my Office Lavender and the Bees My Three-Armed Cover Why My… Read More

Wallet warning! The American Library Association’s Booklist 101 Best Romance Novels of the Last 10 Years is out, and BECAUSE I’M WATCHING is on it! ” The tautly written novel’s plot proves that Dodd knows exactly how to keep readers’ nerves jangling; at the same time, her irresistibly dry wit helps lighten some of the… Read More

Christina rides the zipline. Read more about the Giant Treehouse and see photos here. Read an excerpt and listen free to the first audiobook chapter of THE WOMAN WHO COULDN’T SCREAM: the latest Virtue Falls thriller, out now!    

I love to share my good news with you, my readers. THE WOMAN WHO COULDN’T SCREAM is one of Amazon’s Best Books of September! And THE WOMAN WHO COULDN’T SCREAM got a starred review from Library Journal! ★ 08/01/2017With her future destroyed by an explosion aboard an airplane and her fiancé supposedly dead, Merida Falcon (aka Helen… Read More

Only one week until the publication of THE WOMAN WHO COULDN’T SCREAM. Hm, what kind of tidbit I could offer to whet your appetite? How about a chance to listen, free, to the audio of the first chapter?  Here’s the link, listen on my website or download and listen on your mobile device. Enjoy, and… Read More

My publisher and I asked for your opinion about the cover for my May 2018 release, DEAD GIRL RUNNING. 2216 of you voted, 425 of you commented on Facebook , and you gave feedback on Google+ , Instagram and Twitter. One observation predominated—on all covers, the title and author name were too faint to read. One reader… Read More

When Sheriff Kateri Kwinault gets a call about something strange happening at the local boys’ and girls’ summer camp, she finds herself telling a scary story that might be a little too close to the truth… Settle down by the campfire and read THE WATCHER, a stand-alone Virtue Falls short story. Buy it for $1.99 or download it free when you join my mailing… Read More

“This book is the payoff Kateri fans have been waiting for, as Dodd weaves together the story of two women who have faced death and come out stronger and more determined. This book is a fantastic blend of vengeance, mystery, passion and murder!” — RT Book Reviews “Complex storytelling, a rollicking pace, and surprising twists and… Read More

BECAUSE I’M WATCHING is on Bookbub‘s List of “Books to Read if You Love Nora Roberts!” And yes, you remember correctly—OBSESSION FALLS was on Bookbub’s List of “Books to Read if You Love Nora Roberts!” too. BECAUSE I’M WATCHING is a finalist for the RT Book Reviews 2016 Best of Romantic Suspense Awards, an Amazon Best Book of 2016,… Read More