She wrote about theater for
The Oregonian, anchored and reported for
New York Public Radio,
Bloomberg Radio, New York Times Radio,
CNN and
Fox News, and she freelanced articles for
People,
Entertainment Weekly,
New York Newsday,
American Theatre, and
The Seattle Times. Her first book,
Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy, was independently released in 2011 as a paperback by Dog Ear Publishing and re-released in 2013 as an ebook. In November 2014, "Washington's Most Wanted" featured Morris and her book on
KCPQ TV in the Seattle-Tacoma area. In 2012, she wrote the book
Bad Apples about teacher sex scandals.
Bodies of Evidence, the first in a book series titled
Notorious USA, which Morris co-wrote with author Gregg Olsen, was released in September 2013. With the May 2014 release of Morris and Olsen's book ''If I Can't Have You
about the disappearance of Susan Powell, Kirkus Reviews wrote that the authors "convincingly lay out the myriad of circumstantial evidence against (suspect) Josh." The book broke news with witness accounts that revealed the Powell children might have been molested. Publishers Weekly'', in its review, wrote that the authors did "a solid job depicting the heartbreaking case of Susan Powell." A second book in the
Notorious USA series,
Overkill, written by Morris and Olsen, debuted at number 20 on
The New York Times Best Seller list in e-book nonfiction the week of August 16, 2015. In 2016, Morris and Olsen co-wrote
A Killing in Amish Country, released by
St. Martin's Press. The book outlines one of just two reported murders among the Amish in America in more than 250 years. Also, the death of Barbara Weaver marked the third known Amish murder in hundreds of years.
The Philadelphia Inquirer in its review wrote that "Olsen and Morris work hard to invest the crime with jump and venality." In 2017, Morris co-authored
The Crime Book volume with American crime writers
Shanna Hogan,
Lee Mellor,
Cathy Scott and British author Michael Kerrigan, with a foreword for the U.S. edition by Scott and the U.K. edition by author
Peter James. It was released in April 2017 in the
U.K. and May 2017 in the
U.S. by
Dorling Kindersley (
Penguin Random House) as part of its Big Ideas Simply Explained series. In 2018, Morris called in a tip to
The Seattle Times about a possible Confederate flag in her neighborhood. But it was a Norwegian flag hung by a man whose parents emigrated from Norway, to mark the start of the 2018
Winter Olympic Games and Norway's participation.
TIME magazine picked it up, writing, "Woman Mistakes a Norwegian Flag for a Confederate One." Morris pointed to the current political climate as a possible reason for mixing up the flags.
Awards A Killing in Amish Country was named
Suspense Magazine's Best Books of 2016 in the true-crime category.
Overkill was a
New York Times bestseller in August 2015.
Bibliography •
A Murder in My Hometown (October 2021) () •
Boy Missing: The Search for Kyron Horman (May 2020) () •
The Crime Book (co-author) (2017) () •
The Girl and the Horrors of Howard Avenue: Oregon, Notorious USA (co-author) (March 2017) () •
A Killing in Amish Country: A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder (co-author) (July 2016) () •
Overkill (True Crime Box Set, Notorious USA) (co-author) (August 2015) () • ''If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children'' (co-author) (May 2015) () •
Ted and Ann: The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy (July 2013) () •
Bodies of Evidence (True Crime Box Set, Notorious USA) (co-author) (December 2013) () •
Bad Apples: Inside the Teacher/Student Sex Scandal Epidemic (co-author) (January 2012) () == References ==