Authors for Detective and Crime/ Thriller Novels International Authors

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Authors for Detective andCrime/Thriller Novels

International Authors

Catherine Aird---- had never tried her hand at writing suspense stories before publishing The Religious Body—a novel, which immediately establishedher as one of the gene’s most talented writers. A Late Phoenix, The Stately Home Murder, His Burial Too, Some DieEloquent, Henrietta Who? and A Most Contagious Game have subsequently enhanced her reputation. Her ancestry is Scottish, but she now lives in a village in EastKent, near Canterbury, where she serves as an aid to her father, a doctor, and takes an interest in local affairs.

Rennie Airth---Born in South Africa, worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters for many years, now lives in Italy, and writes British mysteries featuring Inspector John Madden. River of Darkness, was inspired by a scrapbook, about his uncle, a solider killed in World War I. Airth lives in Italy.

Peter Alding----

Michael Allen----was educated at Oundle and Queen’sCollege, Cambridge. He worked briefly on the staff of the New York Herald Tribune in New York and spent a number of years teaching history. Allen nowworks as Area Administrator at the University and lives with his wife, and two children at Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire. His Spence whodunits have wonhim a glowing reputation among mystery buffs. Spence and the Holiday Murders was a previous Scene of the Crime selection.

Scene of the Crime is the renowned mystery bookshop in Sherman Oaks, California. Complete withturn-of-the-century décor, it specializes in literature of crime, detection, intrigue, and mystery. Spence at the Blue Bazaar has been selected byMs. Ruth Windfeldt, proprietor of Scene of the Crime and editorial consultant for the Dell Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

Margery Allingham----took to writing naturally; in her family no other occupation was considered natural or indeed sane. Educated at the Perse School and Regent Street Polytechnic, she wrote herfirst novel while still in her teens. She began to leave a lasting mark on modern fiction in 1928 when, at the age of twenty-three, she wrote the first of her Albert Campion detective novels, Her early books, such as The Crime ant Black Dudley, Mystery Mile, and Look to the Lady, had to be written in sparetime hard won from her film work. At that time her books were beloved by the few advanced spirits who enjoyed her gay and distinctive approach to the problems and pleasures of post-war youth. Since

then her gentle detective and his strong-arm colleagues have become known and loved by young people of all ages all over the world. She also acquired a reputation as a more serious writer. In an Observer review of The Fashion in Shrouds Torquemada remarked that, “to Albert Campion has fallen the honor of being the first detective to feature in a story which is also by any standard a distinguished novel.” Her novels cover a broad field. They vary in treatment from the grave to thefrankly satirical, yet each example contrives to conform to the basic rules of the good detective tale.

Margery Allingham was married to Philip Youngman Carter and lived for many years on the edge of the Essex Marshes. She died in 1966.

**Niccolo Ammaniti---Italian: I’m not sure how manyhe has written but the one I read was excellent.

James Anderson----

Jeffery Archer---educated at Oxford University, hasserved 5 years in Britain’s House of Commons, 14 years in the House of Lords, and two in Her Majesty’s prisons. All his novels and short story collections have been international best sellers. His novel “A Prisoner of Birth” was inspired by histime in prison. He lives in London and Cambridge.

Pierre Audemars----was born in London, England, andis a direct descendent of Louis Audemars, who made watch-making history in nineteenth-century Switzerland. Audemars is the author of 31

mysteries, 26 of them featuring, M. Pinaud of the Surete, Like Agatha Christie’s famous Inspector Hercule Poirot, Audemars’s M. Pinaud has become a familiar and much loved character on the mystery scene. This is the second Audemars mystery featuring M. Pinaud to grace the Scene of the CrimeMystery line: the first was And One for the Dead.

Scene of the Crime is the renowned mystery bookshop in Sherman Oaks, California. Complete withturn-of-the-century décor, it specializes in literature of crime, detection, intrigue, and mystery. Slay Me A Sinner has been selected by Ms. Ruth Windfeldt, proprietor of Scene of the Crime and editorial consultant for the Dell Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

Marian Babson----now lives in London, but she is a New Englander by birth. She gained experience in public relations, managing a fund-raising campaign for a Boston politician. Since then she has worked as a temporary secretary for a pop singer, for a psychiatrist, a maker of safes, and a solicitor. These colorful assignments provide plenty of raw material for her mystery novels, Marian Babson’s Murder, Murder, Little Star will be a forthcoming Scene of the Crime selection.

Scene of the Crime is the renowned mystery bookshop in Sherman Oaks, California. Complete withturn-of-the-century décor, it specializes in literature of crime, detection, intrigue, and mystery. The Twelve Deaths of Christmas has been selected by Ms. Ruth Windfeldt, proprietor of Sceneof the Crime and editorial consultant for the Dell Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

Desmond Bagley----

John Banville---has published many novels and is considered one of Irelands accomplished writers. Using the pen name of Benjamin Black, his latest works feature Dublin coroner, Quirke. Born in Wexford Ireland, in 1945,, his novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prizein 2005. He lives in Dublin.

Andy Barclay----lives outside of Dublin. Darkhouse is her debut novel featuring NYPD detective, Joe Lucchesi who moved to Ireland. She has created another, The Caller.

Linwood Barclay----a former columnist for the Toronto Star, is the internationally bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed novels including Fear the Worst, Too Close to Home, and No Time for Goodbye, which has been optioned for film. He lives near Toronto with his wife and has two grown children. His novel, Never Look Away, features reporter David Harwood.

**Robert Barnard---Brit who has written many, many mystery books

M.C. Beaton---Scottish writer whose books feature the bobby, from a small town in Scotland, Hamish Macbeth

Francis Beeding----was the pseudonym of two Britons, John Leslie Palmer (1885-1944) and Hilary

Aidan St. George Saunders (1898-1951). They were members of the League of Nations Secretariat at Geneva when they began to collaborate on the melodramatic novels, some fifty in all, by which they are best, remembered.

Saunders served in World War I with the Welsh Guards and in 1918 was awarded the Military Cross. From 1921 to 1923 he was private secretary to Doctor Fridtjof Nanson. After the outbreak of WorldWar II Saunders went to work for the Air Ministry and was the anonymous author of The Battle of Britain, which sold three million copies in England alone and was translated into twenty-five languages.Palmer was drama critic of the Saturday Review from 1910-1915, and later drama critic of the Evening Standard. He wrote a number of mystery novels under his own name and also as “Christopher Haddon.”

One of the team’s successes, The Norwich Victims, a thriller, was filmed by, Emlyn Williams, as Dead Men Tell No Tales. Death Walks in Eastrepps is today best known- and by common consent the best- of their popular collaborations.

Tonino Benacquista---born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being, in turn, museum night watchman, train guard on the Paris-Rome line,and professional parasite on the Paris cocktail circuit, he is now a highly successful of fiction and film scripts. “Holy Smoke” won three prestigious crime finction awards, the Gran Prix dela Litterature Policiere, the Prix Mystere de la Critique and the Trophe 813.

Benjamin Black----is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for the sea. He lives in Dublin.

Nicholas Blake----

Giles Blunt---Canadian whose books feature Detective John Cardinal in Quebec Province

John and Emery Bonett----

***Kjell-Olof Bornemark---- is known to Europeans as the Swedish Le Carre. The Messenger Must Die is a translation of his novel Legat till en trolos, which wonthe Sherlock prize in Sweden, won the best-thriller-of-the-year award from the Swedish Academyof Detection, and was published in France, Holland,Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Japan. Ask Bornemark outright if he has ever been a spy, and his answer is no. Ask him if that means he has never been a spy and his answer is still no.

John Brandy----born in Dublin, Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College, now lives in Toronto, Canada, with his family.

Simon Brett---- a former producer of radio and television comedy shows, now devotes himself full-time to writing. His previous Charles Paris novels are Cast In Order of Disappearance, So Much Blood, Star Trap, An Amateur Corpse, A Comedian Dies, The Dead Side of the Mike,Situation Tragedy and Murder Unprompted.

Murder Ink is the renowned mystery bookstore inNew York City. The small shop is with books stackedfrom floor to ceiling specializes in popular mysteries and collectors’ classics. Murder in the Title, has been selected by Ms. Carol Brener, proprietor of Murder Ink, and editorial consultant for the Dell Murder Ink, Mystery Series.

John Burdett---Bangkok police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, is a devote Buddhist and an incorruptible policeman, much to the dismay of his fellow officers. Burdett is a non-practicing lawyer who worked in Hong Kong for a British firm until he found his true vocation as a writer. Since then he has lived in France, Spain and is nowback in Hong Kong.

W.J. Burley---Brit whose books feature Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Charles Wycliffe

Edward Candy----is the author of many novels, including, Bones of Contention, published by, Ballantine in 1984, and Which Doctor, also to be published by, Ballentine, in 1985.

*****Andrea Camilleri---Italian who writes about Sicilian detective Salvo Montalbano and many others. His series have been adapted for Italian television and translated into nine languages. He lives in Rome.

Massimo Carlotto---born in Parua, Italy and now lives in Cagliati, Sardinia. He has written many books and is one of Italy’s most popular authors

and a major exponent of the Mediterranean Noir novel. His novels have been translated into many languages enjoying enormous success outside Italy and several hasve been made into highly acclaimed films.

**Gianrico Carofiglio---Born in 1961, is an anti-mafia judge in the southern Italian port city of Bari, on the coast of Puglia, which is on the east coast of Italian (at the heel). He has been responsible for some of the most important indictments in the region involving organized crime, corruption and the traffic in human beings. His novels feature defense counsel Guido Guerrieri.More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, his relentless suspense novels transcend the genre by focusing on issues like racism, the battery of women etc. They provide a fascinating insight intothe Italian judicial with an affectionate portrait of a deeply humane hero. I loved reading them. They evoked a real sense of Italy and I fell in love with Bari and the surrounding beach towns. Best seller in Italy, he has won a number of prizes, including the Marisa Rusconi, Rhegium juliiand Fortunato Seminara awards.

John Le Carre----was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Berne and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, his third book secured him a worldwide reputation. He lives in Cornwall, England.

G.K. Chesterton---- was born in 1874, and educated at St. Paul’s School, where, despite his efforts toachieve honorable oblivion at the bottom of his class, he was singled out as a boy with distinct literary promise. He decided to follow art as a career, and studied at the Slate School, where, “while attending or not attending to his studies,” he met Ernest Hodder-Williams, who formed the fixednotion that Chesterton could write. At his request he reviewed a number of books for the Bookman and found himself launched on a profession he was to follow all his life. Probably his most famous stories are those of Father Brown, but he wrote about every conceivable subject under or beyond thesun. The best accounts of his life are to be found in his own autobiography, published soon after his death in 1936, and in Miss Maisie Ward’s Life of him.

****Agatha Christie: British queen of mysteries from Miss Marple to Hercule Poriot. Also known-as Mary Westmacott.

****James Church---- (a pseudonym) is a former Western intelligence officer with decades of experience in Asia. Once again as he did in A Corpse in the Koryo, James Church opens a window onto a society where nothing is quite as it seems. The story serves as the reader’s flashlight, illuminating a place that outsiders imagine is always dark and too far away to know. Church’s descriptions of the country and its people are spare and starkly beautiful; the dialogue is lean every thought weighed and measured before it is

spoken. Not a word is weighed, because in this place no one can afford to be misunderstood. If you want to know what life is like in Communist Korea he is an author to read.

Anna Clarke----has joined the ranks of Dorothy Salisbury Davis, P.D. James and Josephine Tey in capturing our imaginations with crimes of the heart. Her successful series of detective fiction shows us once again that the dark deed of murder isborn in the place of our deepest passion.

Douglas Clark----who lives in Surrey, England, joined the British Army after leaving London University in 1939. He served until 1962 in the Royal Horse Artillery and in Amphibious Warfare. Since then he has been working for a large drug company as a creative writer in the promotion field. His first-hand knowledge of drugs is an important factor in the plot of The Gimmel Flask and his previous Murder Ink Mystery, Premeditated Murder.Murder Ink is the renowned mystery bookstore in NewYork City. The small shop is with books stacked from floor to ceiling specializes in popular mysteries and collectors’ classics. The Gimmel Flask,has been selected by Ms. Carol Brener, proprietor of Murder Ink, and editorial consultant for the Dell Murder Ink, Mystery Series.

Ann Cleeves----the daughter of a village schoolteacher, Ann Cleeves lives near Droitwich, England, where she spends her time with her two small children and writing. Her introduction to bird watching, and her husband, came when she spent

a season on Fair Isle working as an assistant cook at the Bird Observatory.

V.C. Clinton-Baddeley----was born in Devon, England. He received an M.A. in history from Jesus College, Cambridge. For a time he was editor of themodern history section of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, but soon turned to theater and acting and then to radio, where he worked woth W.B. Yeats as his poetry reader. His previous writings includeworks of literary and theater research, pantomimes,operettas, and plays. He is also the author of two previous Murder Ink selections, Only a Matter of Time, and My Foe Outstretch’d Beneath the Tree.

Murder Ink is the renowned mystery bookstore inNew York City. The small shop is with books stackedfrom floor to ceiling specializes in popular mysteries and collectors’ classics. No Case for the Police has been selected by Ms. Carol Brener, proprietor of Murder Ink, and editorial consultant for the Dell Murder Ink, Mystery Series.

Paulo Coelho---- is an international bestselling author whose books—The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, The Valkyries, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, and The Fifth Mountain—have sold more than 23 million copies in 117 countries and have been translated into 41 languages. He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Wilkie Colins---Classic: “The Moonstone”

John Connolly---lives in Dublin, Ireland and is a regular contributor to the Dublin Times. His work

features US former detective Charlie Parker and there seems to be a supernatural bent to the books.

Peter Corris----is a former academic turned journalist, thriller writer, and jogger. Born in Victoria, Australia, he is now an enthusiastic resident of Sydney, Australia, which has provided the inspiration and locale for The Dying Trade, White Meat, and his upcoming Cliff Hardy mysteries.

Edmund Crispin----

Amanda Cross----

Arne Dahl----is an award-winning crime novelist andliteracy critic. He lives in Sweden. His novel, Misterioso features Stockholm detective, Paul Hjeim.

Lionel Davidson----was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1922 and now lives in Israel with his wife and two children. His first novel, The Night of Wenceslas (1960), won both the Crime Writers’ Association prize for best thriller of the year and the Authors’ Club award for the most promising first novel. It was followed in 1962 by The Rose of Tibet andin 1966 by The Menorah Men, which was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in the United States and a Book Society selection on Great Britain, where it was published under the title A Long Way to Shiloh, Mr. Davidson’s other highly praised novels are The Sun Chemist, Smith’s Gazelle, and Making Good Again.

Lindsey Davis---Brit who writes about Marcus DidiusFalco crime solver from the First Century AD

Len Deighton----was born in London. He studied art at the Royal College of Art and worked as art director of a London advertising agency. Deighton’shighly original first spy novel, The Ipcress File, immediately established him as a master of the genre, He has also written extremely successful novels with other themes, such as Bomber (World WarII). Len Deighton has made his home in Ireland since 1971.

Michael Delving----

Colin Dexter---Scottish author, now deceased---wrote the famous Inspector Morse books

Peter Dickinson----the son of English parents, was born in Zambia. He returned to England at age sevenand attended Eton and Cambridge. After serving for seventeen years as assistant editor of Punch, he turned to writing books at age forty. Since that time he has written eleven detective stories and thirteen children’s books. Several of both kinds have won prestigious prizes, including the Crime Writer Association Golden Dagger and the Carnegie Medal for children’s books. He currently lives in London and Hampshire.

Rolo Diez---born in Argentina in 1940, was imprisoned for two years during the military dictatorship and forced into exile. He now lives in Mexico City, where he works as a novelist, screenwriter and journalist. A number of his novels have been published in Spain, France, Great

Britain, and Germany. Rolo Diez was awarded the Hammett prize for best crime novels in Spanish in 1985, and won the Umbriel Prize at the Semana Negrafestival of crime fiction in Spain in 2003. He writes about Mexico City police detective Carlos Hernandez, Carlito to the women in his life.

Luca Di Fulvio---born in 1957 lives and writes in Rome. His self-avowed schizophrenic nature leads him to write, with equal passion, gruesome thrillers and delicate fairytales for children, which he publishes under a pseudonym. His book, “the Mannequin Man”, published in Italy in 2000, was the basis for the film “Eyes of Crystal, and launched at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. Actually it was chosen as one of the ten best European crime novels by the French magazine Le Pont. The book features Inspector Giacomo Amaldi, takes place over few oppressive weeks in an unnamedItalian city that evokes Genoa.

****Garry Disher---Aussie whose work features, Detective Inspector Hal Challis from the Peninsula Police force, an area outside Melbourne.

David Downing---grew up in suburban London and is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction for adults and children. Zoo Station takesplace in 1939, in Berlin Germany and features Anglo-American journalist John Russell.

*****Arthur Conan Doyle---Sherlock Holmes

Dorothy Dunnett----is the author of many highly praised historical novels. She lives in Scotland.

Mignon G. Eberhart----

***Umberto Eco----famed Italian writer. He is a world-famous specialist in semiotics, a distinguished historian philosopher, and aesthetician, and a scholar of James Joyce. He teaches at the University of Bologna and lives in Milan. His novel, The Name of the Rose, features Brother William of Baskerville as the detective. Itis his first novel.

****Ake Edwardson----his novels feature Gothenburg Detective Chief Inspector Erik Winter, whose serieshas been published in 12 countries. He is one of Scandinavia’s most successful crime writers and haswon numerous awards, including the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award 3 times. He lives in Gothenburg Sweden.

***Kerstin Ekman---the writer of 17 novels, which have been widely published in Scandinavia and Europe. “Blackwater” her first novel published inEnglish, has been awarded the Swedish Crime Academy’s Award for the best crime novel, the August Prize, and the Nordic Council’s Literary Prize. Ms Ekman lives in Valjabyn, a small villagein northern Sweden.

Aaron Elkins----

***Kjell Ericksson---his novels feature Detective Ann Lindell, as well as many others. His novels are instant best sellers in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Norway, and the Netherlands. ”The Princess of Burundi” won the Swedish Crime Academy Award for best crime novel.

****John Farrow---Canadian writer whose books feature Emile Cinq-Mars

***Jorg Fauser---born in Germany in 1944, was a novelist, essayist and journalist. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty, he produced three successful novels, including “The Snowman” (his debut crime novel) and highly praised essays of literary criticism. “The Snowman”was acclaimed the best crime thriller ever written in German. It has been made into a movie. On July16, 1987, out celebrating his 43 birthday, he was struck by chance or by choice, by a truck and died instantly.

****Conor Fitzgerald----has lived in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy. He hasworked as an arts editor, produced a current affairs journal for foreign embassies based in Rome, and founded a successful translation company.He is married with two children and lives in Rome, His novel, The Dogs of Rome, features Italian police inspector Alex Blume.

Hugh Fleetwood----

Fredrick Forsyth----is the author of many novels and short story collections. A former pilot, and print and television reporter for the BBC, he has had five movies and a television mini series made from his works. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.

Dick Francis---Born in south Wales, the son of a jockey and stable manager, has served in the Royal Air Force, piloting fighter and bomber aircraft, including the Spitfire. He began his career after the war as an amateur jockey and retired in 1957 asthe preferred jockey of the Queen Mum. In 1956 he came heart-breakingly close to winning the Grand National. After retiring from this he began his writing career. He has written 41 international bestsellers. His awards include the Crime Writers’Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the crime genre, and anhonorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tufts University of Boston. In 1996 Dick Francis was made a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master for a lifetime achievement and in 2000 he received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list.

Dick Francis and Felix Francis--- Felix is the younger of Dick Francis’s two sons. Over the last forty years Felix has assisted with the research ofmany of the Dick Francis novels, not least Twice, Shy, Shattered, and Under Orders. Since 2006, Felix hastaken a more significant roll in the writing, firstwith Dead Heat and then increasingly with the bestsellers Silks and Even Money. Crossfire is the fourth novel of this father-and-son collaboration. Felix Francis lives in England.

****Nicolas Freeling---- was born in London and raised in France and England. After his military service in World War II, he traveled extensively throughout Europe, working as a professional cook in a number of hotels and restaurants. His first book, Love in Amsterdam, was published in 1961. Sincethen, he has written many novels and a few nonfiction works. His most recent books have been The Night Lords, the fourth Henri Castang novel, and The Widow, the first in a series about the Widow van der Valk. The Crime Writers in 1965, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers Association awarded Mr. Freeling a golden dagger in1966.

Mr. Freeling lives in France with his wife and their five children.

****Tana French---her debut novel features Detective Rob Ryan and his partner Cassie Maddox, from the Dublin Homicide Squad. French grew up inIreland, Italy, the U>S> and Malawi. A trained actress, he currently lives in Dublin.

**Eugenio Fuentes---- was born in Montehermoso, Carceres, Spain in 1958. His novels include The Battles of Breda, The Birth of Cupid (winner of the San Fernando Luis Berenguer International Fiction Prize), So Many Lies (winner of the Extramadura Creative Novel Award) and most recently, The Blood of Angels. He is also the author of Dead Avenues, a short story collection. The Depths of the Forest, which won the Alba/Prensa Canaria Prize in 1999, has beenpublished in Spain, France, Germany, and Italy.

****Leonardo Padura Fuentes---Cuban writer who features Havana cop, Lieutenant Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. My favorite is “Adios Hemingway.” He was born in Havana in 1955 and lives in Cuba. He has published a number of novels,short story collections and literary essays. If you want to know what life is like for the average Cuban he is excellent.

***Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza—Brazilian author who writes about Inspector Espinosa from Rio de Janerio. Has recently written the fifth and last in the series. Plans to begin a new series soon.

**Jonathan Gash---has written numerous books featuring Lovejoy, an antiques expert and investigator. Gash has won the English Crime Writers Award in 1978.

Michael Gilbert----was born in 1912 and educated atBlundell’s School and London University. He served in North Africa and Italy during World War II, after which he joined a firm of solicitors, where he is now a partner. His first novel, Close Quarters,was published in 1947, and since then he has written many novels, short stories, plays and, radio and TV scripts. He is a founding member of the Crime Writers’ Association. Penguin Books also publishes his The Empty House, The Night of the Twelfth, and Smallbone Deceased.

***Friedrich Glauser---a legendary figure in Continental crime writing. He was morphine and

opium addict much of his life and began his first novel while at the Waldau Asylum, a psychiatric hospital. Often referred to as the Swiss Simenon, he features Swiss Detective, Sergeant Studer. He died at age forty-two a few days before he was due to be married. He was a diagnosed schizophrenic. Hewas arrested for forging descriptions. He spent twoyears with the Foreign Legion in North Africa, after which he worked as a coal miner and a hospital orderly.

Alan Glynn-----is a graduate of Trinity College, where he studied English literature. His first novel, The Dark Fields was produced as a Universal film, directed by Neil Burger. He is married with two children and lives in Dublin.

Robert Goddard---- is the international bestsellingof many novels, including Closed Circle, Into the Blue, Outof the Sun, and Beyond Recall. He lives in Cornwall.

Juan Gomez-Jurado----is an award-winning journalistand bestselling author. The Moses Expedition and his prizewinning first novel, God’s Spy, have been published in more than forty countries and have become international bestsellers. In 2010, Juan celebrated reaching 3 million readers worldwide. Heis a recipient of the prestigious Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja for the Traitor’s Emblem. Gomez-Jurado lives with his family in Madrid, Spain.

Paula Gosling----

Caroline Graham----

Graham Greene----was born in England in 1904. He served on the staff of the London Times and the Spectator. In World War II, he was a member of the foreign office with special duties in West Africa. His first novel was The Man Within. He has written several thrillers, including The Third Man and Our Man in Havana. His more serious novels are notable for their subtle characterization and accomplished craftsmanship.

A number of Greene’s novels and short stories have had successful motion picture adaptations and two of his plays’ The Living Room and The Potting Shed, were produced on Broadway. In 1952, Graham Greene was given the Catholic Literary Award for The End of the Affair.

John Greenwood----is the pseudonym of a well-known British crime writer who, to the great sorrow of his many followers recently passed away at his Norwich home. Fortunately for the admirers of the engaging Inspector’s first four mysteries (Murder, Mr. Mosley; Mosley by Moonlight; The Missing Mr. Mosley; Mists Over Mosley) Mr. Greenwood has left a legacy in the form of two completed but as-of-yet-unpublished Mosley novels, which will appear in the near future.

*****Batya Gur---Israeli literary critic for Ha’aertz, in Jerusalem, writes mysteries featuring detective Michael Ohayon. She died 2005 and the sixth and last book has just been published. If

you want to know what life is like for the average Israeli, she is worth reading.

Steven Hague---- spent ten years churning out copy for one of Europe’s largest investment companies before he finally managed to break free of his shackles and slip away under the cover of darkness.Having bade a life of financial security farewell, he got the crazy notion to embark on his lifelong dream to become a crime fiction writer, and the result of his wordsmithery is the exciting debut novel Justice for All.

Steven is thirty-five-years old, and lives in Norwich with his wife, editor-in-chief and harshestcritic Lisa, and his chocolate Labrador, Murphy. Heis a sucker for all things Americana.

Timothy Hallinan----has written many novels and little works of nonfiction. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Southeast Asia, primarily Thailand, where he has lived off and on since 1985.For more than twenty years, he ran one of America’stop television consulting firms, advising many Fortune 500 companies. He has also taught writing. Hallinan is married to Munyin Choy. His novel Breathing Water takes place in Bangkok features, Arthit, an honest Bangkok cop.

Judy Hamilton----

**John Harvey---Brit who writes two series, one featuring Homicide Detective Charlie Resnick, and the other featuring retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder.

Tim Heald----is a London-based journalist who has authored, besides the Simon Bognor novels, a biography of Prince Charles and a novel, Caroline R.

Georgette Heyer----

Keigo Higashino-----is one of the most widely knownand bestselling novelists in Japan. He is the winner of the Edogawa Rampo Prize (for best mystery), the Mystery Writers of Japan, Inc. Prize (for best mystery), and the prestigious Naoki Prizefor The Devotion of Suspect X. His novels have routinely topped Japan’s annual bestsellers lists, have been frequently adapted into major motion pictures or television series, and have been translated widely throughout Asia. Born in Osaka, he lives in Tokyo.

Alexander O. Smith has translated a wide variety of novels, manga, and video games, for which he has been nominated for the Eisner Award and won the ALA’s Batchelder Award. He studied at Dartmouth College and holds a M.A. in Classical Japanese from Harvard University. He lives in Vermont.

**Patricia Highsmith---- A British novelist of manyclassics such as Strangers on a Train, and The Price of Salt. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland. Herlast novel was Small g.

*****Reginald Hill----has been widely published in both England and the United States. He received Britain’s most coveted mystery writers award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, as well as the Golden

Dagger for his Dalziel/Pascoe series. He lives withhis wife in Cumbria, England. His novel, Midnight Fugue, features Superintendent Dalziel and SergeantPascoe.

John Buxton Hilton----

John Howlett----

****Alan Hunter----lives in Norfolk, England, wherehe has been chronicling the exploits of Chief Superintendent George Gently, C.I.D, for more than twenty years. Gently with the Innocents, and Landed Gently are also selections in Dell’s Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

Scene of the Crime is the renowned mystery bookshop in Sherman Oaks, California. Complete withturn-of-the-century décor, it specializes in literature of crime, detection, intrigue, and mystery. Gently Through the Woods has been selected byMs. Ruth Windfeldt, proprietor of Scene of the Crime and editorial consultant for the Dell Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

John Hutton----was born in Manchester, England, in 1928 and attended Burnage Grammar School and the University of North Wales, where he majored in English. He has taught in various schools and colleges in the Midlands, Wigan, and North Wales, and is now Senior Lecturer in English at the North E. Wales Institute. Kingsley Amis chose for his first novel, 29, Herriott Street, as a candidate for the1980 Arts Council National Book Awards.

Elsbeth Huxley----is the author of The Flame Trees of Thika and a few other mysteries. Murder at Government House and The African Poison Murders, are both availablefrom Viking. She lives in Wiltshire, England.

Adrian Hyland----

Francis Iles----

Michael Innes---- is the pseudonym of J. I. M. Stewart, who was a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, from 1949 until his retirement in 1973. He was born in 1906 and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Oriel College, Oxford. He was a lecturer in English at the University of Leeds for 1930 to 1935, and spent the succeeding ten years asJury Professor of English in the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

He has published many novels and two volumes ofshort stories under his own name, as well as many detective stories and broadcast scripts under the pseudonym of Michael Innes. His Eight Modern Writers appeared in 1963 as the final volume of The Oxford History of English Literature. Michael Innes is married and has five children.

Jean-Claude Izzo---born in Marseilles, France in 1945. He achieved astounding and immediate successwith his “Marseilles Trilogy” (Total Chaos, Posse and Solea) featuring detective Fabro Montale. Izzodied in 2000 at the age of 55.

P.D. James and T.A. Critchley----

Sebastien Japrisot----

Mari Jungstedt---has worked as a radio and TV journalist in her native Stoclholm for 14 years. She spends her summers on the island of Gotland offthe cost of Sweden and has published her debut mystery, the first in a series in that setting. They feature Inspector Anders Knutas and journalistJohan Berg.

*****Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis--- Kaaberbol has sold more than two million books worldwide as afantasy writer. Friis is a journalist and children’s writer. Their bestselling Nina Borg series has been translated into many languages. If you want to know what lige was like in Russia and the Ukraine in the 30” and 40’s and now, they are amust read.

H.R.F. Keating----was the crime books reviewer for The Times (London) for fifteen years. His first novel about Inspector Ghote, The Perfect Murder, won the Gold Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and an Edgar Allan Poe Special Award, and has been made into a feature film by Merchant Ivory Productions. Former chairman of the Crime Writers Association and of the Society of Authors, as well as president of the Detention Club, he lives in England.

***Bill Knox---Scottish writer who writes about theFishery Protection Service featuring Capt Shannon and Chief Officer Webb Carrick.

Duncan Kyle----was born in Bradford and worked as ajournalist until the publication of his first novel, A Cage of Ice, set in the Arctic and published in 1970, gave him the time and opportunity to become a full-time novelist.

Duncan Kyle’s home is now in Suffolk where he lives with his Scottish wife and their three children. The Honey Ant is his twelfth novel.

***Camilla Lackberg----- worked as an economist in Stockholm until a course in creative writing triggered a drastic career change. Her novels have all been number one bestsellers in Sweden and she is the most profitable native author in Swedish history. Camilla’s books have been published in thirty- five countries. She lives in Stockholm. Hersecond novel, The Preacher, features an Fjallbacka local detective, Patrik Hedstrom.

Bob Langley----was born in Newcastle-upon- Tyne, England, and began his career as an insurance clerk. After a period of military service and threeyears traveling in North America, he joined a regional British TV network, Tyne Tees Television, first as a scriptwriter and later as a presenter and roving reporter. In 1969 he moved to the BBC, where he currently hosts a TV talk show. Mr. Langley lives with his wife in a cottage in the English Lake District.

***Asa Larsson---a former tax attorney, writes books featuring attorney Rebecca Martinsson. Larsson was born in Kiruna, Sweden, in 1966. She studied in Uppsala and lived for some years in

Stockholm, but now prefers the rural life-writing full time. She is the author of Sun Storm, winner ofSweden’ Best First Crime Novel Award. Her novel, The Blood Spilt features attorney Rebecka Martinsson.

*****Stieg Larsson---lived in Sweden, and was the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Expo” and a leading expert on antidemocratic right-wing extremist and Nazi organizations. He died in 2004,shortly after delivering the manuscripts for a three novels, called the Millennium Trilogy, featuring researcher and genius hacker, Lisbeth Salander. The first book published, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, introduces her. It also introduces Mikael Blomvist a crusading journalist and publisher

James Long---- is the author of Ferney and many acclaimed thrillers published in England. A former BBC correspondent, he lives in England, where he finished his next novel, The Painter.

Peter Lovesey----born in Whitton, Middlesex, in 1936, attended Hampton Grammar School and Reading University and was a head of Department at Hammersmith and West London College until 1975, when he became a professional author, His crime-writing career began with Wobble to Death, which won the Macmillan/Panther First Crime Novel Award in 1970. The series of novels featuring Detective Sergeant Cribb novels are appearing as a series of ITV plays in 1980.

Peter Lovesey met his wife at university; they live in Surrey with their son and daughter.

**Carlo Lucarelli---from Modena, Italy, has written11 novels only two of which have been translated into English. They feature Inspector, Grazia Negro.

*****P.D. James----English writer who writes about Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh

***Peter James----is the number one international bestselling author of the Roy Grace series with more than 5 million copies sold all over the world.His novels have been translated into thirty-three languages and three have been filmed. All his novels reflect his deep interest in the world of the police, with whom he does in-depth research. Hehas produced numerous films, including The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, and Joseph Fiennes. He lives in England.

**Quintin Jardine----Having spent the first part ofhis working life trying, with moderate success, to persuade journalists to accept his version of the truth about politicians and PR clients, Quintin Jardine took to crime writing both naturally and with relief.

He is the author of many Bob Skinner Novels, and several Oz Blackstone series. He is married with an extended family of four adult kids and two Tonkinese cats. The rarely reclusive author can normally be found in the Mallard hotel, Gullane, East Lothian, or in Trattoria La Clota, L’Escala, Spain.

Wayne Johnston---has written a number of novels, one of which has been made into a movie. His mystery, Colony of Unrequited Dreams, featuring Joey Smallwood. was nominated for the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s award in Canada. Johnston was born and raised in Newfoundland, and now lives in Toronto.

Natshuo Kirino---born in 1951, she quickly established a reputation in her own country as one of a rare breed of mystery writer whose work goes well beyond the conventional crime novel. She has won many awards, including Japan’s top mystery award (1988) and one of Japan’s top Literary awards—the Naoki Prize in 1999.

Raymond Khoury----Lives in London, may be French. 2005 published his first one. “The Last Templar.” In the style of Dan Brown.

**Jan Kjaerstad---was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1953and made his debut as a writer in 1980 wich a shortstory collection. You would never know he wrote short stories by the length of The Seducer. He hasbeen awarded the Nordic Prize for Literature, Germany’s Henrik Steffen Prize, the Norwegian Literary Critics’ Prize and the Aschehoug Prize.

***Stuart MacBride---from Aberdeen, Scotland. Published his first detective novel featuring DS Logan McRae. Henning Mankell----Swede who writes about Stockholm’s Inspector Kurt Wallander, among many other books. He has written 37 novels and many

plays. His books have been published in 36 countries with over 25 million copies in print. Hehas received the Crime Writers’ Association’s Macallan Gold Dagger and the German Book Prize, andhas been a three time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize. He divides his time between Sweden and Maputo, Mozambique, where he has worked as a director at Teatro Avenida since1985.

Charlotte MacLeod----

Barry Maitland----

Scott Mariani---- grew up in St. Andrews, Scotland.He studied modern languages at Oxford and went on to work as a translator, a professional musician, apistol-shooting instructor, and a freelance journalist before becoming a full-time writer. He lives in Wales. His novel, The Mozart Conspiracy, features former British Special Air Service officer, Ben Hope.

***Nagio Marsh: New Zealand queen of mysteries

Dr. Phillipa Deanne Martin---- was born in Melbourne, Australia, and developed a passion for crime fiction and story telling at an early age. This interest was backed up with formal education through a bachelor of behavioral sciences (with majors in psychology and criminology) and a postgraduate certificate in professional writing (creative writing). The Murderer’s Club is the secondnovel featuring Australian FBI profiler Sophie

Anderson, following the internationally successful debut, Body Count. Phillipa has also contributed to an Australian true crime collection titled Meaner than Fiction.

**Guillermo Martinez---was born in Argentina in 1962. Since 1985 he has lived in Buenos Aires, where he earned a PhD in mathematical science. Has written several novels, one of which “The Oxford Murders” an intellectual mystery in which mathematical symbols become clues in a sequence of murders.

Seicho Matsumoto----Although he only began writing at the age of forty, in his long and distinguished career, Seicho Matsumoto has published over 450 novels, histories, and non-fiction works, and has garnered many awards, including the Akutagawa Literacy Prize and the Mystery Writers of Japan Prize.

Inspector Imanishi Investigates is not simply a mystery, nor is its author a simple mystery writer.The character of Imanishi ranks with Simenon’s Maigret, Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowahl’s Martin Beck, and with Nicolas Freeling’s Inspector Van der Valk.His creator, Seicho Matsumoto, is credited as the restorer and innovator of Japanese detective fiction following the Pacific War, (during which the government had actually banned mystery stories)In the 1950’s he introduced the “social detective story,” a police procedural that depicted society in realistic terms. Appearing first as a newspaper serial and then in book form in 1961, Suna no Utsuwa(“Vessel of Sand”) sold in the millions and

established its author as the leader of a new generation of writers.

Beth Cary is the Assistant Director of theJapan Society of Northern California and a well-known translator and interpreter. She was born and raised in Kyoto, received her B.A. in Asian Studiesfrom Wellesley College and pursued graduate work inTokyo. She lives in Oakland, California.

Nigel McCrery----was a police officer in the British Murder Squad, working on several murder inquiries, before attending Cambridge University. He is the author of Still Waters and of many other novels, including the Dr. Samantha Ryan mysteries, and the creator of the television drama series Silent Witness and Old Dog, New Tricks. He lives in London. His novel, Tooth and Claw, features detectivechief inspector, Mark Lapslie, and Sergeant Emma Bradburry.

***Val McDermid--- Scottish writer of mysteries featuring Inspector George Bennett

Patrick McGinley----born in Donegal, Ireland, and educated at Galway University, Patrick McGinley nowworks in London in publishing.

James Melville---Brit who writes about Japanese detective Otani

Mark Mills is a screenwriter is published in a dozen countries and received the British Crime Writer’s Association John Creasy Memorial Dagger

Award. A graduate of Cambridge, he lives in Oxford. “The Savage Garden” is a haunting mystery novel that takes place in Italy.

Giles Milton----is a writer and journalist. He has contributed articles to most of the British national newspapers as well as many foreign publications, and specializes in the history of travel and exploration. In the course of his researches, he has traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Hehas written many previous books of nonfiction, including the bestselling Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, and hasbeen translated into fifteen languages worldwide. Edward Trencom’s Nose is his first novel.

Gladys Mitchell----the critically acclaimed Britishmystery writer, has been chronicling the curious adventures of Dame Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradleysince 1929. She began her career in the golden age of detective fiction and, in 1976, won an honorary Silver Dagger from the Crime Writers Association ofGreat Britain for her contributions to detective literature. Watson’s Choice was a previous Scene of the Crime selection.

Scene of the Crime is the renowned mystery bookshop in Sherman Oaks, California. Complete withturn-of-the-century décor, it specializes in literature of crime, detection, intrigue, and mystery. Winking at the Brim has been selected by Ms. Ruth Windfeldt, proprietor of Scene of the Crime and editorial consultant for the Dell Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

Miyuki Miyabe----was born in Tokyo in 1960 and has written other highly successful mystery novels, as well as historical fiction. Ten films based on her work here have been produced. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games and singing karaoke.Her novel, All She Was Worth, features police detective Shunske Honma.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban---books feature Pepe Corvalho, Barcelona gourmet PI. He lives in Barcelona where he was born in 1939. He is a journalist, novelist, and creator of Pepe Carvalho.He has won both the Spanish Planeta Prize and French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers, which are translated into all major languages.

Patricia Moyes---- author of many mysteries, lives with her husband in Virgin Gorda, one of the British Virgin Islands. Many Deadly Returns was a previous selection of the Dell Murder Mystery Series.

Murder Ink is the renowned mystery bookstore in New York City. The small shop is with books stacked from floor to ceiling specializes in popular mysteries and collectors’ classics. Down Among the Dead Men, has been selected by Ms. Carol Brener, proprietor of Murder Ink, and editorial consultant for the Dell Murder Ink, Mystery Series.

***Harry Mulisch---- is Holland’s most important postwar writer. Born in 1927 in Haarlem to a Jewishmother whose family died in the concentration camps, and an Austrian father who was jailed after

the war for collaborating with the Nazis, Mulisch feels a particularly charged connection with the Second World War, frequently the subject of his work. He has received Holland’s highest awards for his novels, plays, poems, and essays. The Assault hasbeen translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.

Magdalen Nabb----has lived in Florence since 1975. Originally a potter, she now writes full time. Her second novel, Death of a Dutchman, is also set in Florence, and she is working on a third Florentine mystery. Her play, Florence of the North, was produced professionally in 1979.

Shizuko Natsuki---one of Japan’s best mystery writers, Murder at Mt. Fuji is the first of her novels to be published in the United States. She lives in Nagoya City, Japan. She has written over 80 novels,short stories, and serials, forty of which have been made in to Japanese television movies. Severalof her short stories have been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

*****Jo Nesbo---- is a musician, songwriter, economist, and author. His previous Harry Hole novels include The Redbreast, Nemesis, and The Devil’s Star.His books, translated into forty languages, have sold more than six million copies worldwide, and hehas received the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (previously awarded to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell). He lives in Oslo.

*****Hakan Nesser---a Swedish writer lives in Sweden and New York. His detective novels feature Van Veeteren. Nesser was awarded the 1993 SwedishCrime Writers’ Academy Prize for new authors for his Novel “The Wide-Meshed Net; he received the best novel award in 1994 for Borkmann’s Point” and in 1996 for ”Woman with a Birthmark.” In 1999 he was awarded the Crime Writers of Scandinavia’s Glass Key Award for the best novel of the year for “Carambole.”

Gerard O’ Donovan---- was born in Cork and grew up in Dublin. After a brief career in the Irish civil service he traveled widely, working as a barman. Bookseller, gherkin-bottler, philosophy tutor, and an English teacher before settling down to make a living as a journalist and critic for, among other publications, The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s prestigious Debut Dagger competitions.

Gunter Ohnemus--- born in 1946, lives in Munich andis a novelist, essayist and translator. He has written three collections of short stories and a best seller for teenagers. “The Russian Passenger”is his first novel to be translated into English. He has won the Tukan Prize of the city of Munich for his first novel.

Anthony Oliver----

***Michael Ondaatje---is author of numerous novles and 11 books of poetry, and a memoir. Born in Sri

Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto. His most famous novel is The English Patient. His mystery, Anil’s Ghost is equally engaging.

Frank Parrish----

Iain Pears---Brit who has written many Crime Mysteries generally of an art history nature

Chantal Pelletier---- born in Lyon, began her career as a theatre actor. She founded a theatre company in Paris and is a successful author of novels, essays, plays and film scripts. It is not unusual to find her engaged simultaneously as author, director, and actor in the same project. She published her first roman noir in 1997. In Goat Song she introduces Maurice Laice, the world-weary inspector of three of her crime novels. Goat Song won the Grand Prix du roman noir of Cognac in 2001.

*****Louisa Penny----worked as an award-winning journalist before leaving to write crime fiction. Chief Inspector Gamache made his debut in Still Life, which won the New Blood Dagger and Arthur, Ellis, Barry, and Anthony Awards for the best first novel,along with the Dilys Award for the book that the members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association most enjoyed selling. In 2010 it was also nominated for the newly created Barry Award for the Mystery/ Crime Novel of the Decade. With A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month, and The Brutal Telling, Louisebecame the first writer ever to win the Agatha Award for Best Novel three years in a row. A Rule

Against Murder was a New York Times bestseller and oneof Booklist’s Top 10 Crime Novels, as was The Brutal Telling, which was also nominated for the Anthony andMacavity Awards for Best Novel. Louise lives with her husband, Michael, in a small village south of Montreal.

Stef Penny----was born and grew up in Edinburgh. After earning a degree in philosophy and theology from Bristol University, she turned to filmmaking, studying film and TV at Bournemouth College of Art.On graduation she was selected for the Carlton Television New Writers Scheme. She is a screenwriter. The Tenderness of Wolves is her first novel, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2006.

***Arturo Perez-Reverte----is the internationally acclaimed author of The Flanders Panel, The Club Dumas, and the Seville Communion. Translated into nineteen languages in thirty countries, his books have sold more than three million copies worldwide.A well-known newspaper columnist, he was born in 1951 in Cartagena, Spain. Spanish writer who has written many suspense novels

Anne Perry----is also the author of the acclaimed Victorian mystery series featuring Inspector ThomasPitt and his wife, Charlotte, which includes, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, and Highgate Rise.

Leif G.W. Pesson----- has chronicled the political and social development of the modern Swedish society in his award-winning novels for more than

three decades. Persson has served as an advisor to the Swedish Ministry of Justice and is Sweden’s most renowned psychological profiler. He is a professor at Sweden’s national police board and is considered the country’s foremost expert on crime. He lives in Stockholm. His novel, Between Summer’s Longing and Winter’s End, features Chief of Police LarsM. Johansson.

Chris Petit----has been a film director and documentary filmmaker, and has reviewed films, books, and television for major English newspapers.His previous novel is Robinson. He lives in London.

Per Petterson----is the author of many novels, including In the Wake and To Siberia. Out Stealing Horses has won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize. A former librarian and bookseller, Petterson lives in Oslo, Norway.

Henry Porter----is the British editor of Vanity Fair.He contributes commentary and reportage to The Guardian, The Observer, Evening Standard, and The Sunday Telegraph. He divides his time between New York and London.

Sheila Radley----is a well-known British writer of romantic thrillers as well as mysteries. She holds a degree in history from the University of London. For nearly two decades, she has helped run a village store and post office in East Anglia, England.

Murder Ink is the renowned mystery bookstore in New York City. The small shop is with books stacked from floor to ceiling specializes in popular mysteries and collectors’ classics. Death in the Morning has been selected by Ms. Carol Brener, proprietor of Murder Ink, and editorial consultant for the Dell Murder Ink, Mystery Series.

*****Ian Rankin---Scottish writer whose work features Detective John Rebus and also some other books using the pseudonym Jack Harvey

*****Ruth Rendell----English writes about Chief Detective Wexford Also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vines

Giampiero Rigosi---born in 1962, Rigosi is a philosophy graduate and a former bus driver. He isa critically acclaimed novelist, playwright, and author of screenplays. “Night Bus” is his first crime novel. It takes place in Bologna.

Peter Robinson----grew up in Leeds, Yorkshire. He has won the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novel Award and the CWC Best Short Story Award, and was afinalist for Britain’s John Creasey Award, the Crime Writers of Canada First Novel Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The author of Gallows View, A Dedicated Man, A Necessary End, The Hanging Valley, Past Reason Hated, Wednesday’s Child, and Final Account, he lives in Toronto.

****Michael Robotham---a former journalist and the coauthor of a dozen bestselling autobiographies

published in the United Kingdom. He lives in Sydney, Australia. His mysteries feature London homicide detective Vincent Ruiz and psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, who is dealng with this own problemof MS.

William Ryan---- was born in London in 1965 and attended Trinity College, Dublin. He practiced briefly as a barrister before completing his master’s in creative writing at St. Andrews University. His work has appeared in the short story collection Cool Britannia. He lives in London with his wife. The Holy Thief is his first novel.

C.J. Sansom---- was a lawyer but now writes full time. He holds a Ph.D. in history and is the authorof Dissolution, Dark Fire, and Sovereign in the Matthew Shardlake series. Winter in Madrid was a major bestseller in England and is being published in twelve countries. Sansom lives in Brighton, England.

****Dorothy Sayers: One of Britain’s queens of mysteries

**Kjersti Scheen----was born in Oslo. Her prize-winning novels, thrillers, and children’s books have been translated into German, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch. Final Curtain is her first book to be translated into English and is also the first titlein her series of thrillers featuring the ex-actressturned private investigator Margaret Moss.

Louis Muinzer lives in Belfast. His translations from Norwegian into English include

works by Jon Fosse, Finn Carling, Harald Sverdrup and Hans Borli.

Leonardo Sciasscia---One of Sicily’s foremost modern writers, writes among other things, mysteries that show a gripping anatomy of Sicilian life infusing his books with the very spirit of Sicily.

***Mary Shelley---- She was born in London in 1797 as the daughter of William Godwin, a noted social theorist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the leading literary women of the day. Her mother died soon after her birth, and Mary was raised first under the care of servants, then by a stepmother, and lastly in the rarefied intellectual atmosphere of her father’s circle. In May 1814, she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in July of that year eloped with him to the Continent. Two years later, after the death of Shelley’s previous wife, the poet and Mary were able to marry. It was in Switzerland in 1816, as a result of a story writing competition among the Shelleys and Lord Byron, that Mary began Frankenstein, her first and most famous novel. Published in 1818, it was followed by such works asValperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). In 1823, after the death of her husband, she returned to England; there, she devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and the securing of his right to the Shelly family title. She died in 1851.

Walter James Miller—poet, playwright, critic, and translator—has authored, coauthored, or edited sixty-four books, scores of scholarly articles, and

hundreds of television and radio programs. Professor of English at New York University, he haswon a writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts/ Ruttenberg Foundation.

John Sherwood----is a well-known British writer whose books include, A Botanist at Bay, Green Trigger Fingers, and others. He lives in Kent, in the south of England.

Javier Sierra---- His works have been translated into thirty-five languages, is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, The Secret Supper. A native of Teruel, Spain, He currently lives in Malaga.

****Yrsa Sigurdardottir---a leading Icelandic civilengineer directing one of the largest hydro construction projects in Europe---an unusual assignment for an Icelandic women---has authored 5 children’s novels. When she is not working on site(about six months of every year) she lives in Reykjavik. Her mystery novels feature lawyer and investigator Thora Gudmundsdottir.

****Georges Simenon---From Belgium, writes Inspector Maigret novels plus many others. He was born in Liege, Belgium. He published his first novel at seventeen and went on to write more than two hundred novels, becoming one of the world’s most prolific and bestselling authors. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into fifty languages.

Dorothy Simpson----

*****Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo---- (unfortunately Wahloo is deceased). They write about Martin Beck,who timewise may be Wallander’s predecessor.

Alexander McCall Smith ----Scottish writes who writes about a Botswanan female PI Precious Ramotswe and most recently an amateur detective Isabel Dalhousie in Edinburgh.

*****Gunnar Staalesen----was born in Bergen, Norwayin 1947. He made his debut at the early age of twenty-two with Seasons of Innocence. In 1977 he published the first book in the Varg Veum series. They are immensely popular and have been translatedinto twelve languages including French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Russian. Gunnar Staalesen has twice won Norway’s top crime prize, the Golden Pistol.

Michael Stanley---the writing name of a team of writers, Michael Sears and Stanley Trollop. The pair has had many adventures together, including tracking lions at night, fighting bush fires on theSavuti plains in northern Botswana, surviving a charging elephant, and losing their navigation mapswhile flying over the Kalahari. Sears lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and Trollop divides his time between South Africa and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their novel features Detective David “Kubu” Bengu.

Thomas Sterling----

Bram Stoker----was born in Dublin. After attending Dublin University, he spent ten years as an Irish civil servant, trying to keep up his writing in hisfree time. By 1871, he had become the drama critic for the Dublin Mail and had gained experience as a newspaper editor, reporter, and short story writer.In 1878 he became the personal assistant to Sir Henry Irving, the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day, accompanying him on tours and managing Irving’s theater. After Irving’s death in 1905, Stoker worked on the literary staff of the London Telegraph. Dracula, his most famous work was published in 1897.

Lenard Wolf—is a teacher, an author, a leading translator of Yiddish literature and film. He has edited such volumes as Wolf’s Complete Book of Terror andBlood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Literature.

Jeffrey Meyers—has published forty-five books and 630 articles on literature, film, and art. A distinguished biographer, he’s written lives on Hemingway, Lawrence, Conrad, Poe, Fitzgerald, Frost, Orwell, Bogart, and Modigliani. He’s had twenty-five works translated into twelve languages and published in six continents. He is one of ten Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature “ to honor exceptional achievement” fromthe American Academy of Arts and Letters.

***Akimitsu Takagi----(1920-1995) studied medicine and metallurgy and after WWII took up fortunetelling. His teacher predicted that he wouldwrite a novel and show it to an authority in the field. He did, the book was published and won

acclaim. Takagi went on to write many more mysteries, including a series starring the sleuth who first appears in this debut work. Written by one of Japan’s most popular mystery novelists. The Tattoo Murder Case was first published in Tokyo in 1948 and won the Mystery Writers Club Award. It remains to this day among the most read of Japanese detective mysteries.

To be tattooed in Japan was once a punishment intended to brand criminals with an indelible mark of shame, setting them apart from the rest of society. Instead, they made it their badge of defiance. Using their flesh as canvas, yakuza had their entire bodies tattooed. The process was long and painful. Not a lone needle but a cluster of needles was used, set into a bamboo or bone handle.It was a test of will and strength to be tattooed, and an act of daring because the practice of this art was actually made illegal. This ban was strenuously enforced, as the authorities did not wish Japan to appear barbaric in the eyes of westerners.

Although it became acceptable for physical laborers and fireman to have large tattoos, (and they were even honored for they by being sought outas pallbearers and to shoulder other palanquins), such vain decoration was deemed unsavory, a gaudy self-aggrandizement favored by gangsters and geishas. But it was also felt to be mythic and sensuous and wonderfully illicit.

A seam was left in the designs of many full-body tattoos so that they could be collected after death in once piece without disturbing the pattern,provided the owner was willing. The most famous

collection is housed in Tokyo University. In 1947-the collection is being curated by a Professor Hayakawa, who, along with the youngest brother of the city’s chief-of-detectives, comes upon an unusual murder. The victim’s own full-body tattoo has been stolen; the “canvas” mutilated.

Deborah Boliver Boehm is the author of A Zen Romance: One Woman’s Adventures in a Monastery (Kodansha,1996), about the six months she spent in a Zen temple in Kyoto. She has published numerous articles in Pacifica, London Spectator, EastWest, The World Press Review, U&lc, WINDS, and Sumo World. Ms. Boehm isan award-winning travel writer and literary translator, and has also worked as a magazine editor, photojournalist, sumo reporter, interpreterand cultural consultant. She has attended the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, the University of Florence in Italy, Goddard College, the Maganuma School of Japanese Studies, the University of Hawaii, and is a graduated of the Jochi Dagaku (Sophia University) in Tokyo. She lives on an island in Puget Sound, Washington.

***Benjamin Tammuz---was born in Russia in 1919 andimmigrated to Palestine with his family at the age of five. He studied law and economics at Tel Aviv and later attended the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied art history. He was a sculptor as well as a diplomat, a writer, and for many years, literary editor of the newspaper, “Ha’aretz.” His numerous novels and short stories have been widely translated from the Hebrew and have been awarded anarray of literary prizes. “Minotaur” was selected Book of the Year in England in 1981. It features

Alexander Abramov, an Israeli secret agent who falls in love with a woman he’s never met. Tammuz died in 1989.

Andrew Taylor---lives in Gloucestershire, England. He went to school in East Anglia and the Universityin Cambridge. He has traveled and done odd jobs, and worked in London as a librarian. He retired from this work to have more time for his writing. His novel An Old School Tie features Dougal who is asked to help his old friend and adversary, Hanbury, an outrageous villain.

****Josephine Tey---Brit who writes about InspectorGrant and many other mystery books

June Thompson----

Masoko Togawa---Japanese woman who writes suspense novels set in Tokyo. She is an authoress and chanson singer, who was born in Tokyo in 1933. Her father died in the war, and she grew up in restricted circumstances. After leaving high school, she worked as a typist at C. Itoh for five years. She made her professional debut as a singer at “Gin-Pari,” a well-known nightclub, at the age of twenty-three. Between acts, she started to writebackstage in the Green Room, and at the age of twenty-four published Oi Naru Genei—The Master Key—her first work, which was awarded the prestigious Edogawa Ranpo Prize in 1962. Her second novel, Ryojin Nikki—The Lady Killer—was published I 1963. It became a bestseller, was adapted for film and television, and was a candidate for the Naoki

Prize. With this she became established as one of the most popular mystery novelists in Japan.

She is also well known as an essayist, a socialcommentator and a television personality. She is married with one son.

Simeon Tolkien----“the Tolkien’s” grandson---so faronly one novel but quite good

Michael Underwood---an acclaimed British author of many mystery novels.

Arthur W. Upfield----was born in Britain but lived in Australia all his adult life. His fascinating Bony mysteries have won him millions of fans all over the world.

Fred Vargas----is a bestselling author of many titles in French and is published in twenty-two other countries. A historian and archaeologist specializing in the Middle Ages, she lives in Paris.

**Barbra Vine----Her first novel, A Dark-Adapted Eye,won an Edgar Award, the highest individual honor ofthe Mystery Writers of America. A Fatal Inversion won the English equivalent, the Crime Writers Gold Dagger Award. Her novel, The Brimstone Wedding, was published in 1996. She lives in London.

Henry Wade----

**Mignon Warner----born in Adelaide, South Australia, now resides in England. She was a law

clerk before turning to the pen. In addition to herwriting, Ms. Warner assists her husband with his inventing, designing, and manufacturing of professional magic apparatus. Ms. Warner’s The Tarot Murders is soon to be a Scene of the Crime Mystery Selection.

Scene of the Crime is the renowned mystery bookshop in Sherman Oaks, California. Complete withturn-of-the-century décor, it specializes in literature of crime, detection, intrigue, and mystery. Medium for Murder has been selected by Ms. Ruth Windfeldt, proprietor of Scene of the Crime and editorial consultant for the Dell Scene of the Crime Mystery Series.

Colin Watson---Brit who writes about the town of Flaxborough and cases of Inspector Purbright and Constable Cowdrey

**Patricia Wentworth----began her career writing historical novels. She wrote her first mystery, The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, in 1923. Miss Maud Silver, elderly spinster-detective, was introduced in 1928 in Grey Mask, and her immediate popularity was so great that she became a regular in Wentworthmysteries. At the time of her death in 1961, Miss Wentworth had been writing for fifty years, producing over seventy-five novels.

***Colin Wilson---- was born and lives in England, and has worked at a variety of jobs, starting when he was eleven. He left school at sixteen and shortly thereafter began to write, and has been doing so ever sense. He has produced novels, short

stories, philosophic essays; and his work has appeared in innumerable magazines, such as The New York Times Book Review, The Observer and John O’ London’s.

For some years now, it has been apparent that the work of Colin Wilson is developing into a body of ideas that the French call an “oeuvre.” He himself has described his central purpose as the creation of a new existentialism. Thus, The Glass Cage, is as unconventional as most of his work.

Colin Wilson, a noted authority on the occult, has written about it in many ways—from nonfiction books to novels such as The Glass Cage, which infusesthe traditional detective story with occult meaningand mystery.

Besides writing, Colin Wilson spends much of his time as a teacher and guest lecturer, both in England and in the United States.

****Robert Wilson---English writes who lives part time in Portugal and has written four books that take place in Portugal featuring Inspector and Spain featuring Javier Falcon. He has also writtenfour books about an English PI Bruce Medway in Africa.

Pauline Glen Winslow----was born within the sounds of Bow Bells, and raised in East London. She now resides with her husband, a trombonist, in Greenwich Village and Connecticut. Ms. Winslow’s Copper Gold is soon to be a Murder Ink Mystery selection.

Murder Ink is the renowned mystery bookstore inNew York City. The small shop is with books stackedfrom floor to ceiling specializes in popular

mysteries and collectors’ classics. The Brandenburg Hotel has been selected by Ms. Carol Brener, proprietor of Murder Ink, and editorial consultant for the Dell Murder Ink, Mystery Series.

Inger Ash Wolfe----- is the pseudonym for a North American literacy novelist. His novel, The Calling, features detective inspector Hazel Micallef. He lives in Canada.

Sara Woods----

**Carlos Ruiz Zafon---Fabulous Spanish author---“The Shadow of the Wind” is the only one published in English thus far, but I expect others to follow.

International Authors living in the US

J.S. Bothwick----lives on the Maine Coast. The Caseof the Hook-Billed Kites is her first novel.

*****Michael Dibdin----English but now lives the inUS (Seattle, WA) writes about Italian detective Aurelio Zen. Dibden also writes many other suspense and crime novels.**

**Greg Iles----was born in 1960 in Germany. He founded the band Frankly Scarlet, plays guitar for

the Rock Bottom Remainders, and is the author of many New York Times bestselling novels, including Third Degree and True Evil. He lives in Natchez, Mississippi. His novel, The Devil’s Punchbowl featuresprosecuting attorney Penn Cage.

**Juris Jurjevic----Born in Latvia, emigrated to the US and has written his first novel. It features Dr. Jessica Hanley, an epidemiologist, whosolves a crime at a research station in the Artic. I am sure we will see more of her.

***Kwei Quartey---- was raised in Ghana by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, bothof whom were university lecturers. Dr. Kwei Quarteypractices medicine in Southern California, rising early in the morning to write before going to work.His novel, Wife of the Gods, features Detective Inspector Darko Dawson.

*****Janwillem Van De Wetering---Dutch writer who now lives in Maine writes about Amsterdam detectives Grijpstra and DeGier

*****Qui Xiaolong---was born in Shanghai and since 1988 has lived in St. Louis Missouri. His novels feature Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Dept. Xiaolong a poet and a translator, has an M.A. and Ph.D from Washington University. He has won many awards for his work. If you want a sense of what life is like for the average person ib Communist china, he is a must read.

**Carlos Ruiz Zafon---Fabulous Spanish author---“The Shadow of the Wind” is the only one published in English thus far, but I expect others to follow.

American Authors who write about international detectives***Deborah Crombie---writes about Scotland Yard Detective Duncan Kincaid and Inspector Gemma James.She has long been an Anglophile although she grew up in a town north of Dallas. After graduation fromcollege she worked at a small newspaper and for an advertising agency before taking Rice University’s first-ever Publishing Program. After marrying a Scot, she lived in Edinburgh and in Chester, England, before returning to north Texas, where shefinished her second book in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series.

Dean Fuller---American who writes about Surete Chief-Inspector Alex Grismolet

****Alan Furst----is a widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into seventeen languages, he is the bestselling author of Night Solders, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, and The Spies of Warsaw. Born in New York City, he now lives on Long

Island. His novel, Spies of the Balkans, features Constantive “Costa” Zannis, a senior police official that handles special “political” cases.

*****Elizabeth George----writes about Scotland YardChief Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers

***Bartholomew Gill---- is an Irishman who lives part time in the US. He wrote under his real name of McGarrity for the Newark Star Ledger until his death last year. His Peter McGarr is the Chief of Homicide for the Dublin Garda.

***Martha Grimes---writes about Scotland Yard ChiefInspector Richard Jury. She has also written a number of intriguing suspense novels that take place in small town America. My favorite series features a 12-year-old girl who investigates thingsthat happen in her town.

Stuart M. Kaminsky----is the author of a few previous Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries: Death of a Dissident, Black Knight in Red Square (an Edgar nominee), and Red Chameleon, which the Chicago Sun-Times called “a must-read mystery.” He is also the author of thehighly acclaimed Toby Peters mystery series. He nowteaches film history, criticism, and production at Northwestern University, where he is a professor and head of the Division of Film. He lives in Skokie, Illinois, with his wife and children.

*****Donna Leon---American who lives in Venice and writes about Venetian Detective Brunetti

**Kathy Reich---American forensic anthropologist and University professor who lives half time in Montreal and half time in North Carolina and writes about a fictional woman doing the same thing.

*****Martin Cruz Smith---writes about Moscow detective Arkady Renko. If you want to know what like is like for the average Russian under Communism, he is a must read.

*****Charles Todd---- is the author of many Ian Rutledge mysteries- A False Mirror, A Long Shadow, A Cold Treachery, A Fearsome Doubt, Watchers of Time, Legacy of the Dead, Search the Dark, Wings of Fire, and A Test of Wills- andone stand-alone novel. They are a mother-and-son writing team and live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.

Other favorites----Americans Keith Ablow---- like his protagonist, is a forensicpsychiatrist who has testified in some of the nation’s most highly publicized trials. He has written many other Dr. Frank Clevenger novels: Denial, Projection, Compulsion, and Psychopath. Ablow lives in Massachusetts.

Peter Abrahams---- is the author of many crime novels, including End of Story, Oblivion and the Edgar Award-nominated Lights Out, as well as the Echo Falls

mystery series for young adults, the first of which, Down the Rabbit Hole, was also nominated for anEdgar Award and won the Agatha. He lives in Cape Cod.

Harold Adams----

Ralph Ashworth----is a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Ashworth is the author of Greetings From Pittsburg. His work has also appeared in numerous publications including Pittsburgh Magazine and Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Killer of the Orchids, which features Jeff Redwing, a middle-aged computer genius is his first novel.

Nevada Barr--- is the author of many Anna Pigeon mysteries, including the New York Times bestseller Deep South. She lives in Mississippi, where she was most recently a ranger on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Jefferson Bass----is the writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the University of Tennessee’s Anthropology Research Facility-the BodyFarm- a quarter-century ago. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career at the Body Farm, Death’s Acre. Dr. Bass is also a dedicated teacher, honoredas National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and

documentary filmmaker. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science, and broadcasted on National Public Radio. The coauthor of Death’s Acre, he is alsoa writer and producer of two highly rated National Geographic documentaries about the Body Farm.

John Berendt---“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”

Steve Berry---writes in the style of Dan Brown. His latest is “The Templar Legacy.”

John Billheimer----a native of West Virginia, livesin Portola Valley, California. Dismal Mountain is histhird Owen Allison novel.

***Lawrence Block---- is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery gene. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writer’s Association, only the third Americanto be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler.

**Deborah Blum---- Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Blum is a professor of sciences journalism at the University of Wisconsin. She worked as a newspaper science writer for twenty years, winning the

Pulitzer in 1992 for her writing about prime research. She is the author of Ghost Hunters, coeditor of A Field Guide for Science Writers, and has written about scientific research for the Los AngelesTimes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Psychology Today, and Mother Jones. She is the president-elect of the National Association of Science Writers and serves on advisory boards for both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences.

**Matt Bondurant---- received his Ph.D. from Florida State University, where he was a Kingsburg Fellow. He has been a two-time Bread Loaf scholarship winner and a Sewanee Fellow. His shortfiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, the New England Review, Prairie Schooner, the Hawaii Review, and others. Hehas worked for the Associated Press National Broadcast office, an NPR station, and the British Museum. He currently teaches at George Mason University in Virginia.

Peter Bowen---- is a Montanan and has worked as a carpender, barkeep, cowboy, and a fishing and hunting guide. He is the author of three Yellowstone Kelly novels and writes an outdoor column for Forbes FYI under the name “Coyote Jack.”

***C.J. Box---- is the author of many Joe Pickett novels and a few stand-alones and has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Berry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38 and a French Elle Magazine literary award. His books have

been translated into twenty- five languages. He lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming, with his family.

***Ray Bradbury---- was born in Waukegan, Illinois,in 1920. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself--- at night in the library and by day at his typewriter. He sold newspapers on Los Angeles street corners from 1938 to 1942, a modest beginning for a man whose name would one day be synonymous with the best in science fiction. Ray Bradbury sold his first science fiction short story in 1941, and his early reputation is based on stories published in buddingscience fiction magazines of that time. His work was chosen for best American short story collections in 1946, 1948, and 1952. His awards included The O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award in 1954 and The Aviation-Space Writer’s Association Award for best space article in an American magazine in 1967. Mr. Bradbury has written for television, radio, the theater and film, and he has been published in every major American magazine. Editions of his novels and shorter fiction span several continents and languages, and he has gained worldwide acceptance for his work. His titles include The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I Sing the Body Electric, The Golden Apples of the Sun, A Medicine for Melancholy, The Illustrated Man, Long After Midnight, The Stories of Ray Bradbury, and Dinosaur Tales.

**Dan Brown---“The DaVinci Code” and “Angels and Demons.” Plus others. He lives in New England with his wife.

**Rick Buda----Rick has been writing for over twenty years. It was not until the 1990’s that he seriously tried his hand at a novel

With the release of “WolfPointe,” he begins a new chapter of his life that has included writing in it along its various stages. At one point he published a gaming magazine and has always contributed articles to newsletters and local newspapers.

He has always been a fan of thrillers and stories that make the reader feel “ This could happen, but please, not to me!” Rick has traveled the world over and still calls the Chicago area home—although a confirmed suburbanite now.

****James Lee Burke----winner of two Edgar Awards and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the author of many novels, including Rain Gods, Swan Peak, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Pegasus Descending, Jolie Blon’s Bounce, and the Lost Get-Back Boogie, and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana.

John Butler---- Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, John Butler enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served throughout World War II. Hejoined the Mansfield (Ohio) Police Department in 1948, rose through the ranks, and received advancedtraining at Ohio State University and the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville.

After twenty-six years on the Mansfield Police force, the last eight as Chief of the MPD, Chief Butler retired and moved to Florida in 1974. The following year, he became the first police chief ofthe newly incorporated City of Sanibel---a positionhe held until his retirement in 1987. Butler, his wife Betty, and their dog “Jimmy Buffet” continue to make their home on the barrier island of Sanibel.

***James M. Cain---- He is best known for “The Postman always rings twice,” “Double Indemnity,” and “Mildred Pierce”. Considered Noir genre.

****Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason---“The Rule of Four” Resembles a Dan Brown thriller and takes place at Princeton University.

***Lorenzo Carcaterra----is the author of A Safe Place, Apaches, Gangster, Street Boys, Paradise City, and Chasers. He has written scripts for movies and television and was a writer/producer for Law & Order. He has traveled to Italy on a yearly basis since he was fourteen and has written extensively about the country for both National Geographic Traveler and in his books. He speaks fluent Italian, and hisfavorite place to be is inside the church at Santa Croce, standing in front of the tomb of Michelangelo. He is currently at work on his next novel. His novel, Midnight Angels, establishes an American Link in Italy, Kate Westcott, who is an art historian.

**John Case---Great thrillers in the Dan Brown tradition featuring Joe Lassiter, principal owner of Lassiter Associates, an international investigative and security firm. He is the bestselling author of The Genesis Code, The First Horseman, The Syndrome, The Eighth Day, and The Murder Artist. His novel, Ghost Dancer, features photojournalist Mike Burke.

Linda Castillo---- lives in Texas with her husband and is currently at work on her next book, in the series, also set in Amish Country and featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder. Her first novel inthe series, Sworn to Silence, was a New York Times bestseller.

****Michael Charbon---- is the bestselling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

***Raymond Chandler----

Paul Christopher----

Mary Higgins Clark---- is the author of fourteen novels and three short-story collections, all of which have been bestsellers. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey.

Harlan Coben----is the bestselling author of many novels, including the number one New York Times bestseller Hold Tight, The Woods, Promise Me, and the

Myron Bolitar Series, Winner of the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and the Anthony Award, Coben lives in New Jersey with his family.

Margaret Coel---- is the bestselling, award-winningauthor of The Thunder Keeper, The Spirit Woman, The Lost Bird, The Story Teller, The Dream Stalker, The Ghost Walker, The Eagle Catcher, and several works of nonfiction. A native of Colorado, she resides in Boulder.

Max Allen Collins---- is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller historical thrillers; his other books include the New York Times bestsellerSaving Private Ryan, and the USA Today-bestselling CSI series. His comics writing ranges from the graphic novel Road to Perdition, source of the Tom Hanks film, to long runs as scripter of the Dick Tracy syndicatedstrip and his own innovative Ms. Tree. Collins is also a screenwriter and a leading indie filmmaker in his native Iowa, where he lives with his wife, writer Barbra Collins, and their son, Nathan.

Robert J. Conley---- has worked as a programs manager for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma as wellas Director of Native American Studies at three different universities. His astute knowledge of Indian customs and lore gives Wilder and Wilder genuine authenticity as well as insight into the mysterious legends of a fascinating people. Robert is a member of Western Writers of America and a professor of English in Iowa where he lives with his wife.

Bernard F. Conners----

****Michael Connolly---Writes about LA detective Harry Bosch and has a few other series going. Is the author of the number one recent New York Times bestsellers The Reversal.

**Patricia Cornwell---- is the Gold Dagger and Edgar-winning author whose international bestsellers include Point of Origin, Unnatural Exposure, Cause of Death, From Potter’s Field, The Body Farm, Cruel and Unusual, All That Remains, Body of Evidence, Postmortem, and the non-Scarpetta novels Hornet’s Nest and Southern Cross. Cornwall is also the author of the biography Ruth, A Portrait: The Story of Ruth Graham.

Richard Cox----

Robert Crais----is the bestselling author of Hostage, Demolition Angel, and L.A. Requiem, as well as many other novels featuring Elvis Cole.

*****Michael Creighton---has so many wonderful thrillers. A brilliant man, he financed his way through medical school by writing is novels. Also wrote the TV hit series about doctors..

Ellen Crosby---- is a former freelance reporter forThe Washington Post and was the Moscow correspondent for ABC Radio News. She has spent many years overseas in Europe and the former SovietUnion, but now lives in Virginia with her husband and three sons. Crosby is also the author of The Chardonnay Charade and Moscow Nights.

**James Crumley---Has two series going. One about C.W. Sughrue, a Missoula Montana P.I. The other one is a PI also, Milo Dragonvitch.

Jeanne M. Dams----lives in South Bend, Indiana. A Notre Dame graduate and retired teacher, Ms. Dams is also the author of The Body in the Transept, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First “Malice Domestic” Novel, and Trouble in the Town Hall. She is currently working on the next Dorothy Martin’s nextinvestigation.

****Nelson Demille---books featuring NYPD homicide detective John Corey plus many others

Bruce Desilva---- recently retired from journalism after a forty-one-year career. Most recently, he was the Associated Press’s writing coach, responsible for training AP journalists worldwide. He is now a master’s thesis advisor at the ColumbiaUniversity School of Journalism. He and his wife, the poet Patricia Smith, live in Howell, New Jersey, with their granddaughter, Mikaila, and a Bernese mountain dog named Brady.

P.T. Deutermann--- spent twenty-six years in government service before retiring to begin his writing career. He is the author of many novels andlives with his wife in North Carolina.

Gary A. Dias---- served with the Honolulu Police Department from 1971 until 1988 and wrote about hisexperiences in his first book, Honolulu Cop (Bes Press, 2002). He is currently manager of security

at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu. As a reporter, Robbie Dingeman has covered major Hawaii stories for newspapers and television since 1982. She is currently the health reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser. Dias and Dingeman are married to each other and have two daughters.

Carter Dickson---was the pseudonym for the prolificmystery writer John Dickson Carr. Born in Pennsylvania, he married a British woman and lived in England where he wrote mysteries in the great British tradition and worked for the British Broadcasting Corp. during World War II. Author of over ninety mystery novels, Carry was the creator of the fictional detectives Dr. Gideon Fell and SirHenry Merrivale. He was considered master of the “locked-room” crime puzzle but also tried his hand at the historical novel and biography in The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. With Adrian Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur’s youngest son), he wrote a series of stories continuing the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first of which was published in Life magazine. In 1948, Carr, his wife and their three children returned to the United States. In 11949 hewas elected for a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America. He was the recipient of that organization’s Edgar award in 1949 and 1962 and received the Ellery Queen prize twice for short stories. IN 1951, he was the subject of a two-part New Yorker profile. John Dickinson Carr died in 1977.

Paul Doiron----is the editor-in-chief of Down East: The Magazine of Maine. A native of Maine, he attended

Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English, and he holds an MFA in creative writingfrom Emerson College. Paul is a Registered Maine Guide and lives on a trout stream in costal Maine with his wife, Kristen Linduiest. His novel, The Poacher’s Son, features game warden Mike Bowditch.

Robert Doherty---- is a pen name for Bob Mayer. He grew up in New York City, graduated from West Point, and spent twenty years on active and reserveduty in the infantry and Green Berets. Mayer has more than thirty books published under his own nameand four pen names. There are more than two millioncopies of his books in print and he is published ina dozen foreign countries. Mayer’s Area 51 books have been consistent USA Today bestsellers. Don’t Look Down (co written with Jennifer Crusie) was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Harry Dolan----lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bad Things Happen featuring, Elizabeth Waishkey, a detective in the Ann Arbor Police Department.

James D. Doss----worked at the University of California’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, as is the author of many Shaman mystery novels. The firsttwo titles in the series, were named, among the Best Books of the Year, by Publishers Weekly. Originally from Kentucky, Mr. Doss divides his timebetween Los Alamos and Taos, New Mexico.

Warwick Downing---- is a Denver lawyer who lives ina cabin in the mountains-west of town. He likes to

hike, camp, and play handball when he finds the time.

****John Dunning---write about a former Denver cop Janeway turned book dealer who solves cases relatedto books.

J.R. Ellory---- is the author of the internationally bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was The Strand Magazine’s Thriller of the Year in 2009, and is a finalist for the SIBA Award. He divides his time between writing and volunteer programs in the areas of drug rehabilitation and youth literacy. He is married with one son.

****Zoe Ferraris----moved to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War to live with her then husband and his extended family of Saudi- Palestinian Bedouins. She has a MFA from Columbia University. Her first novel, Finding Nouf, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and has been published in twenty languages. She lives in San Francisco and Lexington, Kentucky. Her novel, City ofVeils features Katya, one of the few women in the Jeddah medical examiner’s office. If you want to know what life is like for the average Saudi and western people living in Saudi Arabia, she is a must read.

***Joseph Finder----is the author of many novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Paranoia, Company Man, and High Crimes. Finder is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and

has written extensively on espionage and international affairs for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

G.M. Ford----lives and writes in beautiful downtownSeattle, Washington, where, purely for research purposes, he makes frequent forays into the sordid underbelly of the city in search of the kind of gritty realism his legions of devoted readers have come to expect.

***Jamie Ford----is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who immigrated in 1865 from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco, where he adopted the Western name “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, and alumnus of the Squaw ValleyCommunity of Writers, and a survivor of Orson ScottCard’s Literacy Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle’s Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.

David Fulmer---- His first novel, Chasing the Devil’s Tail was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Mystery/Thriller Book Prize and the winner of the Shamus Award for best first PI novel. He has written about blues, jazz and other subjects for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Magazine, Southline,National Public Radio, the All Music Guide, and Blues Access magazine. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his daughter, Italia.

Lee Goldberg---has written episodes for the USA Networks television series Monk, as well as many other programs. He is a two time Edgar Award nominee and the author of the acclaimed Diagnosis Murder novels, based on the TV series for which he was a writer and executive producers. He has written several Monk novels.

Sue Grafton----“H” is for Homicide may be one of Kinsey Milhone’s most complicated and risk-filled cases. It certainly is one of Sue Grafton’s wittiest ventures into low-life crime. It confirms yet againthat Kinsey Milhone is “ a wonderful character, tough but not brutish, resourceful and sensitive, afit knight to walk those mean streets with her malepredecessors” (The Los Angeles Times) and that Sue Grafton is a “heads-up delight” (Detroit News). Sue Grafton, who “has taken over Ross Macdonald’s shoes” (Robin Winks, Boston Globe), has finished herwork on “I” Is for Innocent. She divides her time betweenMontecito, California, and Louisville, Kentucky, where she was born and raised.

**Tim Green---- is the bestselling author of many thrillers, as well as, the nonfiction New York Times bestseller The Dark Side of the Game. In 1986 he graduated for Syracuse University at the top of hisclass with an English degree before playing eight years in the NFL and becoming a member of the New York State Bar. Today he is the host of FOX TV’s A Current Affair and a featured commentator on Good Morning America, NPR, The Bob Edwards Show, and FOX sports. He lives with his wife and four children in

upstate New York, where he’s working on his next book and practicing law.

***James Grippando---- is the bestselling author ofmany novels, including When Darkness Falls, Got the Look, Hear No Evil, and Last to Die, which are enjoyed worldwide in more than twenty languages. He lives in Florida, where he was a trial layer for twelve years.

****John Grisham---“The Painted House” and many others. He has also published one nonfiction, The Innocent Man, published in 2006.

Michael Gruber---lives in Seattle, WA and writes about Miami homicide detective Jimmy Paz. After the first book he retires and helps run his Mother’s Cuban restaurant but continues to get involved in serial murders. These are of a scientific, religious and mystical nature and are great reads.

Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan----Hackman grew up in a newspaper family in Danville, Illinois, and isa two-time Oscar-winning actor, for Unforgiven and The French Connection. Lenihan is a leading underwaterarchaeologist who writes frequently for the Natural History Magazine. Hackman and Lenihan have co-authored one previous novel, Wake of the Perdido Star. Both live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Jane Haddam----is the author of numerous articles and books, including many mysteries featuring Gregor Demarkian. Her books have been finalists for

both the Edgar and the Anthony awards. She lives with her two sons in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Steve Hamilton----lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife, Julia, and their two children. He grew up in Michigan and attended the University of Michigan, where he was awarded the prestigious Avery Hopwood Prize. His novel, Ice Run, features Alex McKnight.

Dashiell Hammett---- was born in St. Mary’s County,Maryland in 1894. He left school at fourteen and held many jobs there after---messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator, and stevedore. He finally became an operative for Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. After serving in World War I, he turned to writing and inthe late 1920’s, became the unquestioned master of detective-story fiction in America. He was a sergeant in World War II. He died in 1961. Among his books are The Big Knockover, The Main Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, and The Thin Man.

Steven Marcus--- is a professor if English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among his numerous writings are Engles, Manchester, & The Working Class (1974), The Other Victorians (1966) andFrom Pickwick to Dombey (1965). He has also edited TheWorld of Modern Fiction (1966), and with Lionel Trilling, Earnest Jones’s Life and Work of Sigmund Freud. He is Associate Editor of Partisan Review.

Thomas Harris----A native of Mississippi, Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in

the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City. His first novel, Black Sunday, was published in 1975, followed by Red Dragon in 1981, and The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.

Jamie Harrison----American who books feature Sheriff Jules Clement from a small town in Montana.She has worked as a gardener, a caterer, at variousmagazines, and as a script-reader. She was most recently the editor at Clark City Press in Livingston, Montana, where she lives with her husband and son.

John Hart----is the Edgar Award-winning author of two New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies and Down River. His books have been translated into twenty-six languages and published in over thirty countries. A former criminal defense lawyer, John has also worked as a banker, stockbroker, and apprentice helicopter mechanic. Other than writing,his favorite job was pouring pints in a London pub.A husband and father of two, John still lives in his native North Carolina, where he writes full time. His novel, Last Child, features detective Clyde Hunt.

***Michael Harvey---- is the author of The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, and The Third Rail and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has won multiple Emmy Awards and has received two primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award nomination, among numerous other awards. He holds alaw degree from Duke University, a master’s degree

in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives, of course, in Chicago.

David Hewson----

****Joseph Heywood----writes about “woods cop” Officer Grady Service in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

***Lucky You. He also writes a twice-weekly metropolitan column for the Miami Herald.

Joe Hill---- is the author of the acclaimed story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He lives in New England.

*****Tony Hillerman---American who writes about Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn.

**Craig Holden----is the author of many novels: The Jazz Bird, The River Sorrow, The Last Sanctuary, and Four Corners of Night. He lives in Dexter, Michigan with his wife and children.

**Thomas Holland---- has led successful forensic investigations in the deserts of Iraq, the mountains of North Korea, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the manicured lawns of Arlington, VA.He is presently scientific director of the Department of Defense’s Central Identification Laboratory, the largest skeletal identification laboratory in the world. His team is frequently featured on such programs as Discovery, Nightline, Nova and 60 Minutes.

David Housewright---has two series going. One featuring ex-St. Paul cop, who is now rich and doesfavors investigating for his friends. The other series features retired St. Paul detective, turned PI, Holland Taylor.

Richard Hugo----

Stephan Hunter---- has written many novels, one of which, Point of Impact, was adapted into the recent movie, Shooter. Chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguishing Criticism, he has also published a few collections of film criticism, and a nonfictionwork, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Greg Hurwitz---- is the critically acclaimed authorof The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, TheProgram, and Troubleshooter. He holds a B.A. in English and psychology from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Trinity College, Oxford University. He lives in Los Angeles.

Peter James---Brit whose work features Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.

Roy Johansen---- his first screenplay, Murder 101, was written while he was in college, was produced for cable TV and won an Edgar Award as well as a Focus Award, which is sponsored by Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese. He has written for Disney, MGM,

United Artists, Universal, and Warner Bros. He lives in southern California with his wife, Lisa.

Faye and Jonathan Kellerman----Wife and husband. Each a bestselling author on his and her own. Now these masters of the crime novel are writing together for the first time, thrilling us with two riveting tales of murder and suspense. Faye and Jonathan Kellerman have conspired to produce four children and lots of the other good stuff that comes from and enduring, happy marriage. After somedeliberation, they decided to write something together. The end result was good fun. As was this book.

Jonathan Kellerman----is one of the world’s most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a child psychologist to numerous bestselling tales ofsuspense (which have been translated into two-dozenlanguages), including many Alex Delaware novels; The Butcher’s Theater, a story of serial killing in Jerusalem; and Billy Straight, featuring Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor. His most recent novel is Monster. He is also the author of numerousessays, short stories, and scientific articles, children’s books, and a few volumes of psychology, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children. He and his wife, the novelist, Faye Kellerman, have four children.

Jack Kerley---lives in Ky and writes about Mobile Alabama detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus whose specialty is serial killers.

****William Kent Krueger---Lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Writes about small town sheriff, Cork O’Connor.

*****Stephen King----

Charles Kipps---- is an award-winning screenwriter,producer, and author. His film credits include the independent film Frame of Mind. His television credits include Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, The Cosby Mysteries, Columbo, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He isthe author of a few nonfiction books including Cop Without a Badge. The recipient of an Emmy, a Peabody,and an Edgar Award, Kipps lives in New York City.

Louis L’Amour----with more than 180 million copies of his books in worldwide print, Louis L’Amour is one of the world’s four bestselling living novelists. He has more than 90 individual million-copy bestsellers-more than any other American fiction writer. He is the only novelist in history to be voted the National Gold Medal, the highest Congressional award, for lifetime literary achievement, as well as to receive the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor bestowed by thePresident of the United States. His other hardcoverbestsellers include Jubal Sackett, The Walking Drum, The Lonesome Gods, and Frontier, a collection of essays about the North American continent, with photographs by David Muench.

Adria Lang----

**Erik Larson---- is the bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist and Edgar Award-winning The Devil in the White City. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, and a dog named Molly.

Jeffrey Lent---- lives in Vermont with his wife andtwo daughters. He is the author of In the Fall.

****Elmore Leonard----has written more than forty novels, including bestsellers Up in Honey’s Room, The Hot Kid, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Pagan Babies, and Glitz. Many of his books have been made into movies,including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. He lives with his wife in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

John Lescroart---- the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as the Mercy Rule, Guilt, andThe 13th Juror, lives with his family in northern California.

Daniel Levin----earned his bachelor’s degree in Roman and Greek civilization from the University ofMichigan and is a graduate of Harvard Law School. He was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome and has practiced international law in New York. He lives in New York City.

Ira Levin------was born in New York City in 1929 and began his writing career immediately on graduating from New York University. Thus far he has written some novels and many plays. He lives inNew York, after several years in suburbia, and has

three sons. His most famous novel is The Stepford Wives.

*****Martin Limon----Jade Lady Burning marks the debutof Martin Limon, who recently retired from the service after a 20-year hitch. He served with the U.S. Army in Korea for ten years and returned home with a Korean bride. He and his wife live in Seattle. Mr. Limon’s short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Jade Lady Burning features U.S. Army criminal investigators Sgt. Ernie Bascom and Sgt. George Sueno. He grew up in Los Angeles county, just fifteen miles south of City Hall.

Jeff Lindsay----is the author of Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter, the killer character from the hit Showtime original series, Dexter. He lives in Florida with his wife and children.

Robert Liparulo---- his first two novels, Comes A Horsemen and Germ, have received rave reviews. His short story “Kill Zone” is included in the bestselling anthology, Thriller, edited by James Patterson. Robert lives in Colorado with his wife, Jodi, and their four children.

Laura Lippman--- was a Baltimore Sun reporter for twelve years. Her novels have been awarded every major prize in crime fiction. A first-ever recipient of the Mayor’s Prize for Literary Excellence, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

Bill Loehfelm---- was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Staten Island. In 1997 he moved to New Orleans, where he has taught high school and college, managed a pizza joint and an antique shop, and tended bar. He is the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and his work has appearedin the anthologies Year Zero and Life in the Wake. Loehfelm lives in New Orleans’s garden district with his wife, the writer AC Lambeth.

Chuck Logan---- is the author of many novels featuring former Minnesota undercover cop Phil Broker. He lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, with hisfamily.

Eric Van Lustbader---- is the author of many bestselling thrillers, including The Ninja and The Bourne Legacy. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He and his wife live inNew York City and the South Fork of Long Island.

****John D. MacDonald---has a couple of series, themost famous of which is Travis McGee. I like CliffBartells, a hard-boiled ex-cop working for an insurance company.

***Lou Manfredo----served in the Brooklyn criminal justice system for twenty-five years. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Brooklyn Noir. Rizzo’s War featuring, Brooklyn police detective Joe Rizzo,is his first novel. Born and raised in Brooklyn, henow lives in New Jersey with his wife.

Phillip Margolin---- a criminal defense attorney inPortland, Oregon, has tried many high-profile murder cases and argued in the Supreme Court. He has handled many death-penalty cases at the trial and appellate levels, and has saved all of his clients from execution.

Steve Martini----His bestselling novels include Critical Mass, The List, The Judge, Undue Influence, Prime Witness, and Compelling Evidence. He lives on the West Coast.

Charles McCarry----has written many novels: The Miernik Dossier, The Tears of Autumn, The Secret Lovers, The Better Angels, The Last Supper, and The Bridge of the Wilderness, published in 1988. The books are all chronicles of an American family named Christopher whose members have been involved in the world of politics and secret intelligence from 1700 to the present. McCarry, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer, thinks of the books collectively asone novel. His first nonfiction book, Citizen Nader, was a biography of Ralph Nader.

Lise McClendon----

Sharyn McCrumb----is the acclaimed author of She Walks These Hills, The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, and If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O. Her bestselling novels have been named, Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, and she has been honored with awards for the Best Appalachian Novel, the Agatha, the Anthony, the Macavity, the Edgar, and the Nero. She lives and writes in the

Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles fromwhere her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.

Jack McDevitt----is a former naval officer, and motivational trainer. He is a multiple Nebula Awardfinalist who lives in Georgia with his wife, Maureen.

D.R. Meredith---- Her first John Lloyd Branson mystery novel, Murder By Impulse, was published by, Ballantine in 1988. This series debut brought renewed acclaim to Ms. Meredith, whose celebrated Panhandle thrillers featuring Sheriff Charles Matthews are also popular. Ms. Meredith, who lives in Amarillo, Texas, with her husband and their two children.

Jim Miller----is coauthor of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See and Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire. He is also the editor of Sunshine/ Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana. Drift is his first novel and it features Joe Blake, an alienated, underemployed, professor and aspiring poet.

John D. Mills---- is a fifth generation native of Ft. Myers, Florida. He grew up fishing the waters of Pine Island Sound and it is still his favorite hobby. He graduated from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia with a BBA in Finance and worked briefly for Lee County Bank in Ft. Myers. He returned to Macon and graduated from Mercer’s law school in 1989. He started his legal career as a

prosecutor for the state attorney’s Office in Ft. Myers. In 1990 he left the State Attorney’s Office and began his private practices specializing in Criminal Defense and Personal Injury law. His firstnovel, Reasonable and Necessary, was published in 2000.

***Wendy Howell Mills---- like her book’s heroine, is a restaurant manager on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina. She has been in the restaurant business for over eleven years, and enjoys using her experience to write unique mysteries involving restaurant settings. She loves the Outer Banks, and only a very large hurricane pries the author, her husband, and their menagerie of animals away from the beach.

Wendy is also the author of Callie & the Dealer & ADog Named Jake, winner of the Dark Oak Mystery Award, and the first book in the Callie McKinley Outer Banks Mystery series.

Kirk Mitchell---- is a veteran of law enforcement in Indian country. An Edgar Award nominee for a previous novel, he lives in the Sierra Nevada of California.

Graham Moore----a Columbia University graduate witha degree in religious history. He is from Chicago and lives in Los Angeles. His novel, the Sherlockian, features Sherlockian member, Harold White.

Bradford Morrow---- is the author of many acclaimedworks of fiction, including Giovanni’s Gift and Ariel’s Crossing, as well as short stories for

which he has won an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize. He received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2007. Founder of the literary magazine Conjunctions, he is a professor of literature at Bard College. He divideshis time between New York City and rural upstate New York.

Walter Mosley---- is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlings series of mysteries, including national bestsellers Cinnamon Kiss, Little Scarlet, and Bad Boy Brawly Brown; the Fearless Jones series, including Fearless Jones, Fear Itself, and Fear of the Dark; the novels Blue Light and RL’s Dream; and a few collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and Walkin’ the Dog. He was born in Los Angeles and lives in NewYork.

Yxta Maya Murray---- is the author of Locas and What It Takes to Get to Vegas. She was a recipient of the 1999 Whiting Writer’ Award for fiction. She teaches at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Tamar Myers----who is of Amish background, is the author of the Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries and the Den of Antiquity series. She lives in South Carolina with her husband.

**Tim Myers----lives with his family near the Blue Ridge Mountains he loves and writes about. He is the award-winning author of over seventy short

stories. Mr. Myers has been a stay-at-home dad for the last ten years finding time for murder and mayhem whenever he can.

John O’Hara---- His first novel was Appointment in Samarra, published in 1934. Ever since its appearance he has been a major figure on the American literary scene.

Son of a doctor and the eldest of eight children, Mr. O’Hara was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1905. After graduation from Niagara Prep School, he worked as a ship steward, railway freight clerk, gas-meter reader, amusement-park guard, soda clerk and press agent. For a time he was secretary to the late Heywood Broun.

O’Hara’s career as a reporter was equally varied. He worked first for two Pennsylvania papersand then for three in New York, where he covered everything from sports to religion. He also was on the staff of Newsweek and Time.

His two recent novels were A Rage to Live (1949) and The Farmers Hotel (1951). He was the author of the smash-hit musical comedy, Pal Joey, for which Lorenz Hart wrote the lyrics and Richard Rodgers the musical score.

His column, “Appointment with O’Hara” is now a regular feature in Collier’s magazine. In 1954 Random House published Sweet and Sour, a series of weekly columns he wrote for the Trenton Times-Advertiser. Mr. O’Hara lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Gregg Olsen---- is the New York Times bestselling author of many nonfiction books and a few novels. Ajournalist and investigative author for more than

two decades, Olsen has received numerous awards andmuch critical acclaim for his writing. He lives in Olalla, Washington. His nonfiction book, A Twisted Faith, is a true crime story that happened in Bremerton, Washington.

Michael Palmer----is the author of many novels of medical suspense, all international bestsellers. Inaddition to his writing, Palmer is an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Physician Health Services, an organization devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental and physical illness, behavioral issues and chemical dependency. He lives in eastern Massachusetts. His novel, The Last Surgeon features Surgeon Dr. Nick Garrity.

****Robert Parker---most famous for his Spenser novels. He has written a number of series, and my favorite features Jesse Stone, chief of police in Paradise MA.

T. Jefferson Parker----is the bestselling author ofmany novels, including Storm Runners and The Fallen. Alongside Dick Francis and James Lee Burke, Parker is one of only three writers to be awarded the Edgar Award for best novel more than once. Parker lives with his family in Southern California. His novel, L.A. Outlaws, features Deputy Charlie Hood forthis series. He also has many others.

Matthew Pearl----“The Dante Club”

***Ridley Pearson----is the author of more than two-dozen novels, including the New York Times Bestsellers Killer View and Killer Weekend, the bestselling Lou Boldt crime series, and many books for young readers. He and Dave Berry co-wrote Peter and the Star-catchers, the award-wing series for children. Pearson lives with his wife and two daughters, dividing his time between St. Louis, Missouri, and Hailey Idaho. His novel, Killer Summer,features Sheriff Walt Fleming.

**Nic Pizzolatto----His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, The Best American Mystery Stories, and other publications. His work has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and his story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea was named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the top five fiction debuts of the year. He lives in Indiana. Galveston is his first novel.

Douglas Preston---has a couple of series going. I liked “Tyrannosaurur Canyon featuring Tom Broadbent.

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child----are coauthors ofthe bestselling novels Relic, Mount Dragon, Reliquary, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Ice Limit, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life with Crows, Brimstone, Dance of the Death, and The Book of the Dead. Douglas Preston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an experthorseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the west. Lincoln Child is a former book editor and

systems analyst who has published numerous anthologies of ghost stories and supernatural tales.

Peter Quinn----- is the author of Hour of the Cat, Looking for Jimmy, and Banished Children of Eve, and previously served as a speechwriter for two New York governors. After years as the corporate editorial director for Time Warner, he is now a full time writer. He lives in New York. His novel, The Man Who Never Returned, features Fintan Dunne the ex-cop/ detective from the Hour of the Cat.

Lev Raphael---- was a prize-winning short story writer (his collection, Dancing in Tisha B’av won a Lambda Literacy Award), novelist, and critic beforeturning his eye and pen to things criminous. Raphael has also won the Harvey Swados and Reed Smith Fiction Prizes and received International Quarterly’s Boundaries Award for innovative fiction. He lives in Michigan and continues to write fiction, essays, and reviews. He is the mystery review columnist for the Detroit Free Press, and he appears on National Public Radio’s “The Todd Mundt Show.”

Christopher Reich---- is the New York Times bestselling author of Numbered Account and The Patriots Club, the latter of which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novelin 2006. He lives in Southern California with his wife and children.

Elwood Reid---the author of novels and who also writes for GQ and Outside magazine. He lives in Montana. In his novel, “D.B,” which begins in 1971, with a man calling himself D.B. Cooper who hijacked a flight, claimed his ransom without harming anyone, and vanished. Reid uses this true story as a starting pint, imaging Cooper as Phil Fitch, a Vietnam vet with a failed marriage who decides the time has come to do something that willsave him from a life of punching time cards and wondering what could have been.

Jed Rubanfeld---- is the author of the international bestseller The Interpretation of Murder. Aprofessor at Yale University Law School, he is one of the country’s foremost experts on constitutionallaw. He wrote his undergraduate thesis at PrincetonUniversity on Sigmund Freud. Rubenfeld lives in Connecticut with his family.

Jonathan Santlofer---- is an internationally recognized artist with more than one hundred exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His work, which is displayed in many public, private, and corporate collections, has been written about in the New York Times, Art in America, and Artform. His many awards include two National Endowment for the Arts painting grants, and he is a member of Yaddo, one of the oldest art communities in the country. He lives and works in New York City.

Ray Saunders---- is an attorney and author of the critically acclaimed Fenwick Travers series of

historical novels. He lives with his family in Northern Virginia. Blood Tells is his first thriller.

Steven Saylor has had a lifelong fascination with ancient Rome, beginning with the drive-in movies ofhis boyhood (Cleopatra, Spartacus, Ben Hur), on to his degree in history from the University of Texas, andthrough his appearances on the History Channel as an expert on Roman politics and life. He is the author of many volumes in the Roma Sub Rosa series featuring Gordianus the Finder. He splits his time between homes in Austin, Texas, and Berkeley, California.

Lisa Scottoline----is the New York Times bestsellingauthor of many novels and a former trial lawyer andjudicial law clerk. She won the Edgar Award, the highest prize in crime fiction, and teaches Justiceand Fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater, she serves on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America and theNational Italian American Foundation. Her books arepublished in more than twenty languages and she remains a lifelong resident of the Philadelphia area.

Alice Sebold----is the author of the memoir Lucky. She has been chosen by the Village Voice as a Writer on the Verge and has written for the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in California withher husband, Glen Davis Gold. She is known mostly for her novel, The Lovely Bones.

*****Daniel Silva----is the number-one New York Times- bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, and The Defector. He is married to NBC News Today correspondent Jamie Gangel. They have two children,Lily and Nicholas. In 2009, Silva was appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council. His novel, The Rembrandt Affair features Gabriel Allon. If you want to know what concerns Israeli’s today, he is a must read.

Sarah Smith---- grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and has lived in Japan, London, and Paris. She is agraduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Graduate School, where she got her Ph.D. in English. A former manager at a computer firm, Smith---who was also a Fulbright Fellow at the Slade Film School, University of London---has taught film and eighteenth- century literature at Tufts University,Boston University, and Northeastern University.

Smith’s critically acclaimed first novel, The Vanished Child, was selected by the New York Times as one of the nine best mysteries of 1992 and has appeared on local, regional, and national bestseller lists. It has become an all-time bestseller at one of San Francisco’s leading bookstores, outselling The Bridges of Madison County andThe Firm.

Critical praise continues for Smith’s latest novel, The Knowledge of Water, a New York Times NotableBook. It is the second book in a proposed trilogy

and follows the fortunes of three central characters from The Vanished Child when they find themselves in Paris on the eve of the worst flood the city has ever experienced. The Boston Sunday Herald said, “Smith—who had resided in Paris—uses her first-hand knowledge and convincing research todepict the city during its 1910 flood. Dark and engrossing, this production is magnifique.”

Smith, a hypertext and science fiction author whose work has appeared in several anthologies, including Best New Horror, has served as a judge for the Philip K. Dick Award. She is also on the Regional Board of Directors of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, and on the board of the Archives of Detective Fiction.

Sarah Smith lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, two children, their twenty-two pound cat, Vicious, and Gracie, the assistant cat!

*Les Standiford---great suspense novels featuring Miami businessman John Deal, who is forced to help a government agency solve cases.

Reed Stephens--- is a retired policeman who teaches“The Mystery Novel as Literature” and “Sociology ofCrime” at Rocky Mountain University in Farmington, N.M. As a hobby, he studies the fantasy fiction of Tolkien and Donaldson. His true avocation, however,is bridge. He lives with his wife and young son in the Jemez Mountains, just outside of Farmington.

*Eric Stone----lives in Los Angeles. He has spent over thirty years working as a writer/journalist, photographer, editor, and publishing consultant. He

has lived in and traveled extensively throughout Asia. His novel, The Living Room of the Dead is the veryfirst novel that features American expatriate journalist, detective, confused human being, Ray Sharp.

Zia Summer----

Dennis Tafoya---- was born in Philadelphia and now lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Wolves of Fairmount Park is his second novel, featuring Detective Brendan Donovan.

Jim Tenuto--- a 1975 graduate of the United States Navel Academy, lives in San Diego, California, withhis wife, Lynn. His short fiction has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, California Fly Fisher, and Sporting Classics.

Robert Tine----

Nick Toshes----was born in Newark and raised by wolves from the other side. He taught himself classical Greek, Latin, and medieval Italian, and has devoted much of his life to the study of Dante.Tosches is the author of many books, including the novels Cut Numbers and Trinities and acclaimed biographies of Dean Martin (Dino), Jerry Lee Louis (Hellfire), the infamous Sicilian financier Michele Sindona (Power on Earth), and Sonny Liston (The Devil and Sonny Liston). Thirty years of his prose and poetry are represented by, The Nick Tosches Reader. Hismost recent book is The Last Opium Den. He is a

contributing editor of Vanity Fair and lives in New York City.

John Wainwright----

Larry Watson----Born in Rugby, North Dakota and raised in Bismarck, Larry Watson received his B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of North Dakota and his Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Utah. Watson is the author of the novel In a Dark Time; a chapbook of poetry, Leaving Dakota; and the novel Montana 1948, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, The Mountains & Plains Bookseller Association Regional Book Award, and was named one of the Best Books in 1993 by bothLibrary Journal and Booklist. He teaches English at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point and makes his home in Stevens Point, where he is at work on anew novel, White Crosses, to be published in hardcover by Pocket Books.

****Randy Wayne White---is a columnist for Outside Magazine, the host of “On the Water,” a PBS television series, and a veteran Sanibel Island fishing guide. He lives with his family in Ft. Myers, Florida.

Herman Weiss----

***Stephan White----is a clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of many previous novels, including Missing Persons and Kill Me. He lives in Colorado. His novel, Dry Ice features Alan Gregory.

Michael Wiley---- teaches literature at North Florida University and is currently working on a second Joe Kozmarski mystery. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

Stuart Woods----is the author of more than thirty novels including the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series. An avid sailor and pilot, he lives in New York City, Florida, and Maine.

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