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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.

John Banville is an Irish novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Banville often writes under the pen name of Benjamin Black. He is known for dark humour and a precise, forensic-like style that is dense and thick like poetry. He has recently taken the reigns of Raymond Chandler‘s Philip Marlowe character (as Benjamin Black).

John Hart is an American novelist of thrillers. Before becoming an author, John was a lawyer, banker, stockbroker and an apprentice helicopter mechanic. John was born and grew up in North Carolina, where he sets his books. His books get compared to the likes of Scott Turow and John Grisham.