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Lincoln Perry is the central character in a series of crime fiction novels by American author Michael Koryta. Lincoln is a private investigator who is based out of the Cleveland area.
Michael Koryta is an American novelist of crime fiction and supernatural thrillers. When he was eight years old, Michaels was already contacting his favourite authors. When he was in high school, he decided he wanted to write crime fiction and interned with a private investigator. His last name is pronounced “ko-ree-ta.”
Joseph O’Loughlin is the central character in a series of crime fiction novels by Australian author Michael Robotham. Joseph is a psychologist with a wonderful sense of humanity and a dry sense of humour. He works alongside Vincent Ruiz, a hard-drinking former detective. The two characters have very different personalities, but gel great as a […]
Michael Robotham is an Australian novelist of crime fiction. He worked as a journalist for Fairfax Press before ghostwriting autobiographies for athletes, artists and military figures in the UK. After returning to Australia in 1996, Michael began writing full-time. Most of his novels feature his Joseph O’Loughlin character and all of them feature Vincent Ruiz […]
Thomas Harris is an American novelist of suspense, horror and crime fiction. He is best known for creating the Hannibal Lecter character. Interestingly, the act of writing to him is “kind of like an act of torment,” remarked fellow author Stephen King. Harris is a private person and has not given an interview since 1976.
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 […]
Hollywood Station is a series of police procedural novels by American novelist Joseph Wambaugh. The series is set in Los Angeles and focuses on the LAPD, but not one character in particular. The most common recurring characters are Hollywood Nate, Flotsam & Jetsam and Compassionate Charlie.
Joseph Wambaugh is an American author of crime fiction, mystery novels and true crime non-fiction. Before becoming an author, Wambaugh served in the U.S. Marines and then joined the LAPD, where he served 14 years and made detective sergeant. Wambaugh often sets his novels in Los Angeles, where he often creates police officers with flawed […]
The Godfather is a series of crime fiction novels by American author Mario Puzo. The series is about a Sicilian Mafia family from New York City (and the surrounding area), headed by Vito Corleone. The original novel introduced several terms including consiglieri, caporegime, Cosa Nostra and omerta to English language readers. The first novel in […]
Mario Puzo (1920-1999) was an American author/screenwriter of crime fiction. Mario was best known for Mafia-themed novels, most notably The Godfather. His family were Italian immigrants living in Hell’s Kitchen, which is where he draws much of his material from. Mario’s goal when he wrote The Godfather was to write a novel to make him […]