James Rollins and James Clemens are the pen names of American author James Czajkowski. As James Rollins, he writes action-adventure/thriller novels, such as the Sigma Force books. Under the James Clemens pen name, he writes fantasy novels like The Banned and The Banished (Wit’ch) books and the Godslayer series. Before becoming a novelist, Czajkowski was […]

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Mary Higgins Clark was an American novelist best known for her suspense novels. She had been called “The Queen of Suspense” for her mastery of the genre, leading you to believe that all of the parties are guilty. Her novels often feature women who are young and independent and must solve whatever problem lay in […]

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Detective D.D. Warren is a fictional character who stars in a series of suspense novels by American novelist Lisa Gardner. D.D. Warren is a detective for the Boston Police Department.

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Lisa Gardner is an American novelist who writes thrillers as well as romance novels (under the nom de plume Alicia Scott). As a thriller novelist, she is inspired by the book-turned-movie The Silence of the Lambs.

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Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell are fictional characters created by American novelist Chelsea Cain who are featured in their own thriller series. Archie Sheridan is a police detective, while Gretchen Lowell is a serial killer. Chelsea Cain got the idea from hearing about the Green River Killer.

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Chelsea Cain is an American author who writes thriller novels as well as humour books. Cain grew up on a hippie commune and wrote her master’s thesis based on her memoirs. From there, her thesis became Dharma Girl and got published.

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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Nelson DeMille is an American novelist who has written such books as The General’s Daughter, The Gold Coast and the John Corey series. He has mostly written thrillers and crime fiction but he has delved outside of that with some non-fiction, albeit he tends to use pseudonyms when he does. DeMille grew up in Long […]

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