by Susan Allison
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
David Ellis is the author of five other novels, including Line of Vision for which he won the Edgar Award. An attorney from Chicago, he is currently Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and served as the impeachment prosecutor in the Governor Blagojevich trial.
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by Janet Julian
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
C. J. Sansom was a lawyer before becoming a full-time writer. He is a bestselling novelist in the United Kingdom, he has a PhD in history.
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by Miles Klein
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives with his wife, Gerda, and the enduring spirit of their golden retriever, Trixie, in southern California.
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by Sue Rosenzweig
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Robert B. Parker is the author of more than 50 books. His novel, Appaloosa, was recently turned into a movie directed by and starring Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renee Zellweger, and Jeremy Irons. The film was an official selection of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and the winner of the 2008 Best Film award at the Boston Film Festival.
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by Carol Kellerman
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Karin Slaughter is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Fractured, Beyond Reach, Triptych, Faithless, A Faint Cold Fear, which was named an International Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Indelible, Kisscut, and Blindsighted; she contributed to and edited Like a Charm. She is a native of Georgia, where she currently lives and is working on her next novel.
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by Nancy Chaplin
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
A writer of varied talents, James Sallis is a published poet, critic, translator, and novelist. He has been praised as "a fine talent, introspective, sardonic, a master of quick characterization and narrative compression" (Buffalo News) and as "a rare find...a fine prose stylist with an interest in moral struggle and a gift for the lacerating evocation of loss" (Newsday).
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by Mary Purucker
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
JOSEPH FINDER is the author of several critically acclaimed, bestselling thrillers including Power Play and Killer Instinct. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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by Mary Purucker
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
TREVANIAN (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the best-selling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts, and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.
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