"Thomas Lakeman Thomas Lakeman (born March 10, 1964) is the author of three mystery novels published by St. Martin's Minotaur. These include ""The Shadow Catchers"" (2006), ""Chillwater Cove"" (2007) and ""Broken Wing"" (2009). Lakeman wrote numerous stage plays for production by the Playhouse in the Park in Mobile, Alabama. In 1986 he was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for independent study abroad. During his tenure as Digital Planet's creative director he was responsible for many of the Web's first movie promotional sites, including Web campaigns for ""Twelve Monkeys"" and ""Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13"". He was also writer and co-creator"
"The Secret Series (Enid Blyton) The Secret Series is a series of adventure novels written by Enid Blyton. There are five books, as follows: A sixth book in the series, ""The Secret Valley"", was written by Trevor J. Bolton and published by Award in 2009. Here are brief summaries of each story: Peggy Arnold, and younger twin siblings Mike and Nora, are living with a harsh aunt and uncle after their parents are thought to have been killed in a plane crash. In this first adventure, aided by an orphan boy, Jack, they have befriended, they run away to an"
"Cross Creek Productions. Screenwriters Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth are penning the script. Meagan Spooner Meagan Spooner is a ""New York Times"" bestselling and internationally bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy for young adults. She is best known for the Starbound Trilogy and Unearthed, which she co-authored with Amie Kaufman, as well as for her solo ""Skylark"" trilogy and her standalone fairytale retelling ""Hunted"". Meagan Spooner was raised in the United States, and graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in playwriting. She has spent time living in Australia and has traveled to all seven continents, but currently resides"
"Meagan Spooner Meagan Spooner is a ""New York Times"" bestselling and internationally bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy for young adults. She is best known for the Starbound Trilogy and Unearthed, which she co-authored with Amie Kaufman, as well as for her solo ""Skylark"" trilogy and her standalone fairytale retelling ""Hunted"". Meagan Spooner was raised in the United States, and graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in playwriting. She has spent time living in Australia and has traveled to all seven continents, but currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina. Spooner's debut, ""Skylark"", was published by Carolrhoda Lab in"
"a second season. The Wayward Pines Trilogy The Wayward Pines Trilogy (2012–2014) is a mystery/thriller/science fiction novel series by American author Blake Crouch. It follows U.S. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke as he unravels the mystery surrounding his unanticipated arrival in the small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho following a devastating car accident. The novels are Pines (2012), Wayward (2013), and The Last Town (2014). In 2015, the novels were adapted into the television series ""Wayward Pines"". The plot surrounds Secret Service agent Ethan Burke's introduction to the remote small town of Wayward Pines, his new home from which he"
"The Wayward Pines Trilogy The Wayward Pines Trilogy (2012–2014) is a mystery/thriller/science fiction novel series by American author Blake Crouch. It follows U.S. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke as he unravels the mystery surrounding his unanticipated arrival in the small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho following a devastating car accident. The novels are Pines (2012), Wayward (2013), and The Last Town (2014). In 2015, the novels were adapted into the television series ""Wayward Pines"". The plot surrounds Secret Service agent Ethan Burke's introduction to the remote small town of Wayward Pines, his new home from which he cannot escape. The"
"Arnold; but there seem to be unknown enemies who are seeking to sabotage this work, and this seems to be connected with a remote, inaccessible valley that the children stumble into almost by accident. The Secret Series (Enid Blyton) The Secret Series is a series of adventure novels written by Enid Blyton. There are five books, as follows: A sixth book in the series, ""The Secret Valley"", was written by Trevor J. Bolton and published by Award in 2009. Here are brief summaries of each story: Peggy Arnold, and younger twin siblings Mike and Nora, are living with a harsh"
"again, a wide variety of female characters. Django Wexler Django Wexler is an American fantasy author. He has published the ""flintlock fantasy"" series ""The Shadow Campaigns"" (2013–2018), the young adult ""Forbidden Library"" fantasy series, and other works. Wexler obtained degrees in creative writing and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and engaged in post-graduate artificial intelligence research at the university. He later worked as a programmer and writer for Microsoft in Seattle before turning to writing fiction full-time. Wexler's principal epic fantasy series, ""The Shadow Campaigns"", is set in a world resembling Europe and North Africa of the"
"3rd book onwards. The second book from ""Gods and Warriors"" was published in August 2013. The 4th book (""Crocodile Tomb)"" was released in 2015 and the story took place in Bronze Age Egypt. The 5th and final book from the series was published in August 2016. Michelle Paver Michelle Paver (born 7 September 1960) is a British novelist and children's writer, known for the fantasy series ""Chronicles of Ancient Darkness"", set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe. For the concluding book ""Ghost Hunter"" (2009) she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's"
"as she seeks the answer for her parents' mysterious deaths. The first book brings in many of the previously introduced characters such as Magnus Bane, James Carstairs, and Tessa Gray. ""The Wicked Powers"" is an upcoming trilogy written by Cassandra Clare. It's events are set to happen 3 years after the events of Queen of Air and Darkness. It will be the fifth set of books to be published and is set to wrap up ""The Shadowhunter Chronicles"". The following books are listed in order of their publication dates. In 2010, Screen Gems announced that they were going into production"
"several novels: ""Double"" (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, ""The Lighthouse"" (1987), ""Beyond the Grave"" (1986), ""The Bughouse Affair"" (2013), ""The Spook Lights Affair"" (2013), ""The Body Snatchers Affair"" (2015), ""The Plague of Thieves Affair"" (2016), and ""The Dangerous Ladies Affair"" (2017) as well as on numerous anthologies. He published his first novel, ""The Stalker"", in 1971. However, his best known works are the Nameless Detective series, which he began in 1971. As of 2017, there are 46 books in the series, including a number of short stories. While the stories involve the usual range of crimes typical to mysteries, they"
"series co-written with Lee Goldberg. Since then the series has grown to five novels (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, and The Pursuit), two novellas (Pros & Cons and The Shell Game) and one online short-story, The Caper. The protagonist is FBI special agent Kate O’Hare who has devoted her career to taking down one of the FBI’s most wanted con men and master thieves, Nick Fox. That is until the FBI pairs Kate with the most unlikely person, Nick Fox, to take down criminals. Together they travel the globe skirting on the edge of what is legal"
"a six-book ""39 Clues"" sequel entitled ""Cahills Vs. Vespers"", for which he wrote the third book, ""The Dead of the Night"". His other books include the historical novel ""Smiler's Bones"", the YA novel ""Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am"" (with Harry Mazer), the YA dark comedy-adventure novel ""wtf,"" the ""Drama Club"" series, the ""Spy X"" series, the ""Watchers"" series, the ""Abracadabra"" series, and the ""Antarctica"" two-book adventure, as well ghost-writing for series such as the ""Three Investigators"", the ""Hardy Boys Casefiles"", ""Sweet Valley Twins"", and more than forty books in the series ""The Baby-sitters Club"" and its various spin-offs."
"Jo Beckett series, two in the Unsub series, and three standalone works. Meg Gardiner Meg Gardiner (born May 15, 1957) is an American thriller writer and author of fourteen published books. Her best-known books are the ""Evan Delaney"" novels, first published in 2002. In June 2008, she published the first novel in a new series, featuring forensic psychiatrist ""Jo Beckett"". More recently she has published three stand-alone novels—""Ransom River"" (June 2012), ""The Shadow Tracer"" (June 2013), and ""Phantom Instinct"" (June 2014)—and two novels in a new series, ""Unsub"" (2017) and ""Into the Black Nowhere"" (2018). Her first novel, ""China Lake"","
"that while Ronald Reagan was President, he sometimes carried a gun with him. This was confirmed by a Secret Service agent. His popular “Culper Ring” novels, of which ""The President’s Shadow"" is the third, imagine that a secret spy ring, founded in real life by George Washington, continues to exist today. His 2013 novel, ""The Fifth Assassin"", follows a killer bent on re-creating the crimes of presidential assassinations from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald. Meltzer's 2018 novel ""The Escape Artist"" debuted at No. 1 on ""The New York Times"" Hardcover Fiction Bestseller list. In May 2010, Meltzer released"
"published the Kindle Edition E-book (ASIN: B019P27WJK) in 2015. CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Anthony Award for Best True Crime Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer is a book written by English professor of psychology, David V. Canter. It was the winner of two literary awards: the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction (1994) and the Anthony Award for Best True Crime (1995). A unique insight into some of Britain’s most notorious criminal investigations, this is the account of Professor Canter's experience as Britain’s leading pioneer in the new science"
"Kay's Fionavar trilogy, three of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novels (2005 ""Dead Beat"", 2006 ""Proven Guilty"" and 2012 ""Cold Days""), the third issue of Seanan McGuire's series October Daye, ""An Artificial Night"", Fred Vargas's 2011 ""The Ghost Riders of Ordebec"" and Jane Yolen's 1995 ""The Wild Hunt"". It also features in Cassandra Clare's book series, ""The Mortal instruments"" and ""The Dark Artifices"", led by Gwyn ap Nudd. The Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr contains a modern Wild Hunt. It is also a major plot point in Peter S. Beagle's ""Tamsin."" The Wild Hunt is a primary element of R.S."
"that decided the issues, where the novel has four cases for Jim Chee to solve, and in the process to aid the federal agencies in the case of the crashed plane carrying drugs into the US. Redford would later bring the series to PBS's ""Mystery"", making three films from later novels in the series. The Dark Wind The Dark Wind is the fifth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, published in 1982. It is the second of the novels to feature Officer Jim Chee. Now working from Tuba City,"
"Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit is 1995 non-fiction crime book written by retired FBI agent John E. Douglas and his coauthor Mark Olshaker. The book details Douglas's ""criminal-personality profiling"" on serial killers and mass murderers, which he developed over decades of interviews with known killers. The book includes profiles of the Atlanta child killer, Wayne Williams, Edmund Kemper, Robert Hansen, Larry Gene Bell, and suggests proactive steps on luring culprits to contact the police. In 2017, the Netflix series ""Mindhunter"" began production, and drew inspiration heavily from the book."
"Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit is 1995 non-fiction crime book written by retired FBI agent John E. Douglas and his coauthor Mark Olshaker. The book details Douglas's ""criminal-personality profiling"" on serial killers and mass murderers, which he developed over decades of interviews with known killers. The book includes profiles of the Atlanta child killer, Wayne Williams, Edmund Kemper, Robert Hansen, Larry Gene Bell, and suggests proactive steps on luring culprits to contact the police. In 2017, the Netflix series ""Mindhunter"" began production, and drew inspiration heavily from the book."
"The Dark Wind The Dark Wind is the fifth crime fiction novel in the Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, published in 1982. It is the second of the novels to feature Officer Jim Chee. Now working from Tuba City, Sgt. Chee is assigned four cases by Capt. Largo. A drug-smuggling plane crashes, and Largo insists Chee stay away from that case, a tough challenge as he gathers information from Hopis, whites and Navajos to solve the original cases. Reviewers found this to have a ""classic Hillerman plot"", involving a plane crash, possibly illegal"
"Jeffery Deaver Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950) is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good"
"sort out the twin problems of who's really who and whodunnit. The Unicorn Murders The Unicorn Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery (more precisely, it is a subset of that group, an impossible mystery) and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale. Kenwood Blake is with the British Secret Service and romantically involved with another agent, Evelyn Cheyne. Together with Sir Henry Merrivale, they become embroiled in a battle between Flamande, the most picturesque criminal in France, and"
"Shadow Wave Shadow Wave is the twelfth novel in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. It was published by Hodder Children's Books () on 26 August 2010, and features the final mission of the long-standing central character James Adams. A limited edition of ""Shadow Wave"", with an orange cover (designed by Callum East), was made available exclusively at W.H.Smith. Details of Muchamore's plans to create a small three-book series called ""Aramov"" without James, were revealed via a secret website detailed on the back pages of all copies of the book. James Adams works undercover with MI5 as a Brigands Motorcycle"
"Meg Gardiner Meg Gardiner (born May 15, 1957) is an American thriller writer and author of fourteen published books. Her best-known books are the ""Evan Delaney"" novels, first published in 2002. In June 2008, she published the first novel in a new series, featuring forensic psychiatrist ""Jo Beckett"". More recently she has published three stand-alone novels—""Ransom River"" (June 2012), ""The Shadow Tracer"" (June 2013), and ""Phantom Instinct"" (June 2014)—and two novels in a new series, ""Unsub"" (2017) and ""Into the Black Nowhere"" (2018). Her first novel, ""China Lake"", received the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original novel upon its"
"Django Wexler Django Wexler is an American fantasy author. He has published the ""flintlock fantasy"" series ""The Shadow Campaigns"" (2013–2018), the young adult ""Forbidden Library"" fantasy series, and other works. Wexler obtained degrees in creative writing and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and engaged in post-graduate artificial intelligence research at the university. He later worked as a programmer and writer for Microsoft in Seattle before turning to writing fiction full-time. Wexler's principal epic fantasy series, ""The Shadow Campaigns"", is set in a world resembling Europe and North Africa of the Napoleonic era. It mainly follows three soldiers"
"silver coins lying in wait on the ocean floor. And a past that refuses to let the guys of Deep Six Salvage forget the Navy SEAL motto that ""the only easy day was yesterday""..."" Julie Ann Walker Julie Ann Walker is a ""New York Times"" and ""USA Today"" Best Selling American author, known for her ""Black Knights Inc."" and ""Deep Six"" series. Prior to becoming a full-time author, Walker worked as a high school mathematics teacher. Walker writes stories of romance and romantic suspense. Her first novel, ""Hell on Wheels"", landed on the ""USA Today""s Best-Selling Books list in September"
"or Jim Harrison. Set primarily in Florida, it tells the story of drone pilot Luther Redding and his family, who suffer a great tragedy. Meanwhile, burned out brothers Donny and Bobby Rosen light out on a drug-fueled road trip to the American West. Mark Powell (novelist) Mark Powell (born 1976) is an American novelist. He is the author of the novels ""The Dark Corner"", ""Blood Kin"" and ""Prodigals"" (all with the University of Tennessee Press), as well as ""The Sheltering"" (Story River Books, an imprint of University of South Carolina Press). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for"
"Kyle Mills (author) Kyle Mills (born 1966) is an American writer of thriller novels including ""Rising Phoenix"", ""Fade"", and ""The Second Horseman"". Several of his books (""Rising Phoenix"", ""Storming Heaven"", ""Sphere of Influence"", ""Free Fall"" and ""Darkness Falls"") include a character ""Mark Beamon"", an FBI special agent. He also wrote ""The Ares Decision"" (2011), ""The Utopia Experiment"" (2013), and ""The Patriot Attack"" (2015), the eighth, tenth, and twelfth installments of the ""Covert-One series"", originally created by Robert Ludlum. He is the current writer of the Mitch Rapp series of novels after original author Vince Flynn died in 2013. Mills lives"
"Spy Sinker Spy Sinker is a 1990 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the final novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). ""Spy Sinker"" is part of the ""Hook, Line and Sinker"" trilogy, being preceded by ""Spy Hook"" and ""Spy Line"". This trilogy is preceded by the ""Game, Set and Match"" trilogy and followed by the final ""Faith, Hope and Charity"" trilogy. Deighton's novel ""Winter"" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory"
"The Catcher Was a Spy The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg is a 1994 biography written by Nicholas Dawidoff about a major league baseball player who also worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Moe Berg, the subject of the book, was an enigmatic person who hid much of his private life from those who knew him and who spent his later decades as a jobless drifter living off the good will of friends and relatives. The book spent seven weeks on The New York Times Best Seller"
"media side with the black rioters, revealing that the government official would have been double-crossed had he attempted to strike his deal. Yeager and the other members of the group, now under increasing government scrutiny, resolve to continue their efforts and to go ""underground"" to continue the fight against the system. Hunter (Pierce novel) Hunter is a 1989 novel written by William Luther Pierce, the founder and chairman of the National Alliance, a white nationalist group, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. Pierce also used this pseudonym to write the better-known ""The Turner Diaries"", a 1978 novel with similar themes. Some"
"Shadowhunters Shadowhunters, also known as Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments, is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Ed Decter, based on the popular book series ""The Mortal Instruments"" written by Cassandra Clare. It premiered in North America on Freeform on January 12, 2016. Primarily filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the series follows Clary Fray (Katherine McNamara), who finds out on her eighteenth birthday that she is not who she thinks she is, but rather comes from a long line of Shadowhunters, human-angel hybrids who hunt down demons. It is the second adaptation of the novel series, after the 2013"