Order of Carlene Thompson Books
Carlene Thompson is an American author of suspense novels. After seeing 101 Dalmatians at age 9, she wrote a novel called The Mystery of the Golden Retriever. A huge animal lover, she tries to include at least one of her pets into each book she writes, which to her is a way to immortalize them. (more…)
Order of Tom Piccirilli Books
Tom Piccirilli is an American author of poetry, horror, thrillers, erotica, fantasy and hardboiled crime fiction. He has won the Bram Stoker Award four times and a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award. (more…)
Order of Jack Schaefer Books
Jack Schaefer (1907-1991) is an American novelist of Western fiction. He is best known for his debut novel Shane, which was adapted into a classic film. Despite the fact that he wrote Western novels, he had never been to the West for much of his life. (more…)
Order of Crow Girl Books
Crow Girl is a series of young adult novels by English author Kate Cann. Lily Stanfield is an outsider who is bullied by the other girls and unnoticed by boys. But once she meets a murder of crows in the woods, her life changes. Cann got the idea for the series when she saw some crows following an old man around a park. (more…)
Order of Beach Books
The Beach series is a series of young adult fiction by English novelist Kate Cann. Kate wrote these summer-themed books to sling in a beach bag and be read by the sea. (more…)
Order of Kate Cann Books
Kate Cann is an English author of young adult novels in addition to being a journalist. Kate decided to become an author when she was working as a copy editor, working on young adult fiction and thought she could do better. She got a lot of her material eavesdropping on her teenage children and their friends. She has written several series, including her Crow Girl series. (more…)
Order of William P. Young Books
William Paul Young is a Canadian novelist of suspense. Paul was raised around a stoneage tribe by his missionary parents in New Guinea (now West Papua). Later, his family would return to Canada, where he would attend Canadian Bible College. He would move to Portland, Oregon and meet his future wife, Kim, there. (more…)
Order of Leonid McGill Books
Leonid McGill is the central character in a series of hardboiled crime fiction/mystery novels by American novelist Walter Mosley. Leonid is an old-school private investigator based out of Manhattan. McGill is not above taking a shady job in order to get a quick buck. (more…)
Order of Easy Rawlins Books
Easy Rawlins is the protagonist in a series of historical mystery novels by American author Walter Mosley. Easy is a WWII vet-turned-hardboiled detective based out of Los Angeles. The books are set in the 1940s up to the 1960s. The series takes a hard look at racial inequities experienced by African-Americans. The character was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the 1995 adaptation of Devil in a Blue Dress. (more…)
Order of Walter Mosley Books
Walter Mosley is an American novelist of crime fiction and historical mystery novels. He is best known for his hardboiled detective series featuring Easy Rawlins. Mosley’s father was an African-American clerk in the U.S. Army and his mother was a personnel clerk of Russian-Jewish descent. As an only child, he used his imagination to fill the void that he would later be able to hone into his fiction career. His inspirations include Dashiell Hammett, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler. In 1992, presidential candidate Bill Clinton named him as one of his favourite authors. (more…)