I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

Arquette said the initial title, “Who Killed My Daughter,” captured national attention and was followed by death threats and the couple’s decision to relocate to Florida.ĭuncan went on to assist other parents in similar circumstances and helped create a research center for cold-case homicides that evolved into the Resource Center for Victims of Violent Deaths.ĭuncan is survived by husband and children Robin Burkin, Kerry Arquette, Brett Arquette and Donald Arquette Jr. Griffin, Night Terrors, Stranger with My Face, Dont Look Behind You, and The Twisted Window.

SPOILERS AHEAD Lois Duncan was a household name if. The ordeal was explored in two books, the first published in 1992 and another in 2013. Her young adult novels included Ransom, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan an examination. Duncan never stopped searching for a motive and the perpetrators, said Pat Caristo, a private investigator who assisted in the effort. Her most personal writing chronicled the mysterious shooting death of her daughter Kaitlyn Arquette in Albuquerque as the 18-year-old drove home.Īlbuquerque police categorized the killing as a random drive-by shooting. She moved to Albuquerque in 1962, where she taught magazine writing at the University of New Mexico. The daughter of magazine photographers, Duncan grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and began writing professionally when she was still an adolescent for youth magazines, including Seventeen.

Starting in the late 1960s, Duncan wrote more than two dozen suspense novels aimed at young adults, such as “Down a Dark Hall” and “Stranger with My Face,” that would help define a genre.