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Brad Parks is an American author of mystery and thriller novels. He writes the Carter Ross series. His novels combine humour with gritty urban realism. Brad covered high school sports for his hometown newspaper, The Ridgefield Press, when he was 14 years old. Once he got to Dartmouth College, he started his own sports newspaper. […]
Nele Neuhaus is a German novelist of crime thriller and mystery novels. She is the author of the Oliver von Bodenstein and Pia Kirchhoff series. Nele was writing when she was approximately five years old – phonetically, as she hadn’t even learned how to write yet. As an adult, Nele realized that she wasn’t cut […]
The Hardy Boys is a series of children’s mystery novels written under the house name of Franklin W. Dixon. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe, are teenage brothers who spend their time solving mysteries. Their often-inept father, Fenton, is also a detective.
Franklin W. Dixon is the house name created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Hardy Boys children’s adventure/mystery novels. He also wrote the Ted Scott Flying Stories series. The first author who used the pen name was the Canadian author Leslie McFarlane (pictured above). Other authors who went on to use the house name included […]
Charlotte McNally is the protagonist in a series of mystery/romantic suspense novels by American novelist Hank Phillippi Ryan. “Charlie” is a television investigative reporter in her forties who works out of Boston, Massachusetts.
Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American author of mystery, thriller and romantic suspense novels, in addition to being an investigative reporter for the Boston, Massachusetts NBC affiliate. She writes the Charlotte McNally series and the Jane Ryland series. Ryan grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended Western College for Women, following up by studying in […]
Darlene Ryan is a Canadian author of young adult novels as well as cozy mystery novels using the pen name of Sofie Kelly. As Kelly, she writes the Magical Cats Mysteries series. Darlene has been writing for almost all of her life, even winning a poetry contest when she was in Grade 3.
Lorena McCourtney is an American novelist of Christian-themed mystery and romance novels. She grew up writing stories about horses, while getting her Agriculture degree from Washington State University. While raising a family, Lorena ended up getting a job to pay the bills and had to put writing on the backburner, until she started writing short […]
Owen McKenna is the protagonist in a series of mystery/thriller novels by American author Todd Borg. Owen McKenna is a former San Francisco homicide investigator, but a tragedy caused him to give up his position in order to start a new life in Lake Tahoe. Once he moved there, he started up shop as a […]
Todd Borg is an American novelist of mystery/thriller novels. He writes the Owen McKenna series set in the Lake Tahoe area. Todd moved to Lake Tahoe from the Midwest along with his wife, painter Kit Night, in 1990 after several vacations there. The lake gave him the inspiration to write about the area, resulting in […]