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The Millennium Series is a series of crime/thriller novels posthumously published by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. The main protagonist of the series is Lisbeth Salander. The first book in the Millennium series, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was adapted into a Hollywood movie in 2011 by David Fincher. The three books already have Swedish […]

Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was a Swedish author who is best known for the Millennium series, a crime fiction series that includes the incredibly popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. During his lifetime, he edited periodicals and wrote some non-fiction books in Swedish. He spent his life researching right-wing extremism. Larsson himself was a communist.

Shane Scully is a fictional LAPD Detective III who appears in novels by American author and television producer Stephen Cannell. Scully is an orphan, so he grew up alone and continues to be a loner (especially at the beginning of the series).

Stephen J. Cannell (1941-2010) was an American author and TV producer. He even did a bit of acting as well. He is known for creating the television shows The A-Team and 21 Jump Street among many other shows. As a novelist, he wrote the Shane Scully series and several standalone novels.

The Pendergast series is a series of thriller novels by American novelists Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The books are named after the title character Aloysius Pendergast, an FBI agent. The series is largely divided into sub-series, with trilogies and direct sequels within the series.

Lincoln Child is an American author who is the writing partner of Douglas Preston. Preston and Child have written many different novels together, which are techno-thriller and horror novels – mostly notably the Pendergast series. Before starting as a novelist, he worked as an editor at St. Martin’s Press.

Douglas Preston is an American author who typically writes alongside Lincoln Child. Together they have written numerous techno-thriller and horror novels, including the Pendergast series, the Gideon Crew series and other standalone novels. He also writes non-fiction books.

The Walker Family Mysteries is a series of novels by American author J.A. Jance. Although the Walker Family Mysteries series started back in 1991 with Hour of the Hunter, the series didn’t resume until ten years later with Kiss of the Bees.

TV journalist Alison Reynolds’ broadcasting career has come to an abrupt end because the execs want someone younger and meanwhile she is in the middle of a divorce with a cheating husband. This causes Reynolds to leave Los Angeles and head back to Arizona where she decides to start up a blog to help others […]

Joanna Brady is a character who appears in novels by American author J.A. Jance. The Joanna Brady series is set in the town of Bisbee, Arizona – where Jance grew up. Joanna starts out of the wife of Andy Brady, who is running for sheriff. He gets murdered, so she decides to take his place […]