Allan Evans and Steve Berg in conversation

Det. Cade Dawkins is summoned to a mysterious meeting at the University of Minnesota to learn that a professor has uncovered a site on the dark web made by serial killers who share their exploits. After Cade stopped a serial killer in the Twin Cities and nearly lost the two women closest to him, a new challenge is issued: come to Minnesota and outsmart the detective who stopped the Blonde Killer. Come and Kill. With two killers on the site terrifying the public, the media turning on him, and the governor threatening to fire him, Cade is running out of time. Though written as a stand-alone, Killer Smile is a follow up to Killer Blonde.

Author Allan Evans has been finding writing success of late. The follow-up to 2021’s KILLER BLONDE, his serial killer thriller, KILLER SMILE, was published in 2023. He also has two young adult novels, ABNORMALLY ABBEY (2020) and CLASS CLOWN (2022). The third in the series, SPOOK SQUAD, will be published in 2024. All are from Immortal Works Press.Evans has been an undercover investigator, fitness trainer, bodyguard, magazine producer, retail manager, advertising copywriter, employment recruiter and marketing manager. Beyond filling out his bio, these experiences have added color to his writing. He’s the son of famed jazz musician Doc Evans.A soccer coach, he can usually be found on a soccer field somewhere, teaching kids about soccer and life.Allan Evans lives in Woodbury.

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“Lost Colony: The Hennepin Island Murders” begins with the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm — and continues thirty years later, and four thousand miles away, with the gruesome murder of an activist priest on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis.

The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church’s time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman, and his improbable partner, Maggie Lindberg, the murdered clergyman’s stylish young assistant, join forces to search for the killers.

The trail leads to the castle fortress of the island’s reclusive kingpin, Jonas Kron, whose “lost colony” delusions hide a gripping international mystery that brings the story full circle. Along the way, the curious bond between the unlikely detectives — Span and Maggie — only deepens as they seek to fill the empty spaces in their own lives.

Steve Berg. (https://www.steveberg.org/) Primary background is journalism: Five years at the Raleigh News and Observer; 30 years as a feature writer, political correspondent and editorialist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in the Twin Cities and Washington, D.C. Author of “Target Field: The New Home of the Minnesota Twins” (2010) and “U.S. Bank Stadium: The New Home of the Minnesota Vikings” (2016). “Lost Colony” is first novel. Lives in Asheville, NC and Minneapolis.

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