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Denise Mina is a Scottish author of crime fiction and its Scottish subgenre Tartan Noir. She is best known as the author of the Garnethill trilogy, Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. Having an engineer father, Denise and family moved 21 times in 18 years. She currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960) was an English-Australian novelist as well as an aeronautical engineer. He dropped the “Norway” from his pen name in order to protect his engineering career. His novels are not divided into series, but rather three categories – Pre-War (mostly pre-1940), War (1938-1947) and Australia (1948-1960). As he was an aeronautical engineer, […]
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. He has won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Stephen Crane Prize and the Whiting Writer’s Award. His vampire-themed Passage trilogy has been optioned by Fox 2000.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was an American author known for his science fiction and satire. He was also a critical leftist intellectual. He served in World War II as a soldier and was a POW who received a Purple Heart for what he called a “frostbite.” Vonnegut gave his works all letter grades – he […]
William Monk is a fictional character created by British novelist Anne Perry. He is the protagonist in a series of detective novels set in the mid-19th century. Monk is clever, sarcastic and very emotional. Once he gets into a case, he becomes determined and then obsessed.
Thomas Pitt is a fictional character created by English novelist Anne Perry and the protagonist in a series of detective fiction novels set in Victorian London. He is a police inspector. Charlotte Pitt is his wife, who is from an upper-class family with connections that often help her husband out in his investigations.
Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction and mystery novels. When she was a teenager living in New Zealand, Anne Perry assisted in a brutal murder of her friend’s mother, which became the basis for the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures. As an adult, Perry joined the Mormon church and moved to Scotland. […]
The Kate Burkholder series is a series of crime thriller novels by American author Linda Castillo. The series is set in Amish country, Ohio where police chief Kate Burkholder must re-visit to her Amish roots.
Operation: Midnight is a series of romantic suspense novels by American novelist Linda Castillo.
Linda Castillo is an American author of crime thrillers, romantic suspense and other romance novels. Her recent series is the Kate Burkholder series. Linda grew up in Ohio, but now resides in Texas. She enjoys riding horses in her spare time.