"Drop Shot Drop Shot is a murder mystery by Harlan Coben. It is the second novel featuring Myron Bolitar. It was published in 1996. A young woman is shot in cold blood, her lifeless body dumped outside the stadium at the height of the US Open. At one point, her tennis career had skyrocketed. Now headlines were being made by a different young player from the wrong side of the tracks. When Myron Bolitar investigates the killing, he uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive club. Suddenly, Myron is in over his head."
"While studying political science at Amherst College, he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity, along with the writer Dan Brown. After Amherst, Coben worked in the travel industry, in a company owned by his grandfather. Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write. His first book was accepted for publication when he was twenty-six. His thriller ""Play Dead"" was published in 1990, followed by ""Miracle Cure"" in 1991. He then began writing a series of thrillers featuring a former basketball player turned sports agent, Myron Bolitar, who often finds himself investigating murders"
"both studied taekwondo in a Korean dojo, though it is clear in the storylines that Win is more advanced. Esperanza began as an assistant, but Myron makes her his partner in the seventh Bolitar novel (""Darkest Fear"") after Esperanza gets her law degree from New York University. Bolitar is depicted as being a good agent for his clients, taking care of their needs and wants while being careful to not exploit them like bigger agencies. He also helps out clients in times of personal need, which often puts him in the role of ""accidental detective."" His office space in the"
"involving his clients. Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award and an Anthony Award. He is the first writer to have received all three. He is also the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write fiction for the ""New York Times"" op-ed page. He wrote a short story, ""The Key to My Father,"" which appeared on June 15, 2003. ""Tell No One"", his first stand-alone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series in 1995, was published in 2001. It is his best-selling novel to date. Director Guillaume Canet made a French-language"
"to bring important facts to the readers attention. Myron Bolitar is a thirty two year old sports agent, and owner of MB SportsReps. Myron lives in his parents basement, but spends most nights at the apartment of his girlfriend Jessica. A former basketball player, Myron was destined to be a star with the Celtics when a career ending injury forced him to give up the game he loved. Myron moved on with his life, getting his law degree and starting the agency, but never lost his love for the game or his desire to play. Myron gets drawn back into"
"wealthy families like Win as well as rampant poverty and ethnic diversity, allowing the author to explore the theme of discrimination. Not too far from the exclusive golf course and club, Myron finds a sleazy by-the-hour motel and a backwards neo-Nazi criminal. The wealthy go to the low-class neighbourhoods to have illicit affairs, and the criminals come to the wealthy neighbourhoods in the employ of the criminal idle rich. Myron Bolitar is a sports agent, but he also investigates crimes. He usually enlists the help of his friend Win, a slick and violent agent with a history of secret government"
"crackerjack pace and multi-layered plotting."" They found that the short attention span of the protagonist was ""both age appropriate and believable"" and that Mickey Bolitar's ""mother's struggle with drug addiction adds poignancy"" to the novel. In conclusion, they found it to be ""a not-bad-at-all entry into the teen market for this adult author."" Shelter (novel) Shelter is the first novel of the ""Mickey Bolitar"" young adult series by American crime writer Harlan Coben. The novel was first published on September 15, 2011 through Orion Books. Geoff Adams, for the ""Otago Daily Times"", found that the novel provided ""mystery, suspense and"
"city of New York as well as Greenwich Village. The storyline follows Myron Bolitar as he searches for Greg Downing. Myron travels throughout different areas of the city the outlying suburbs in his search for Greg, as well as trying to find the truth behind the murder of Liz Gorman. The novel is written in the third person, omniscient. For the most part, Myron Bolitar is the main focus, however there are brief passages where his assistant Esperanza is highlighted. Myron, as the main character, is the center of the majority of the novel, however Esperanza is highlighted in order"
"Shelter (novel) Shelter is the first novel of the ""Mickey Bolitar"" young adult series by American crime writer Harlan Coben. The novel was first published on September 15, 2011 through Orion Books. Geoff Adams, for the ""Otago Daily Times"", found that the novel provided ""mystery, suspense and thrills enough"" and concluded that ""you will enjoy reading it to find out more. And it is not too grisly."" The ""Irish Independent"" stated that, while it is a series aimed at teenagers, ""older folk will love this cracking new series, too."" ""Kirkus Reviews"" stated that the novel ""benefits greatly from [Coben's] trademark"
"the creator of the British crime drama television show ""The Five"", which first aired on April 2016 on the Sky 1 channel in the United Kingdom. Coben is also the creator of the French-British crime drama television show ""Safe"", which premiered in 190 countries on 10 May 2018. Coben won the 1996 Anthony Award in the category ""Best Paperback Original"", for ""Deal Breaker"", the first volume of the Myron Bolitar series; it was also nominated for an Edgar Award in the same category. ""Fade Away"" won the 1997 Shamus Award and the Edgar Award for ""Best Paperback Original"", was nominated"
"Dr Edna Skylar is revealed as the source for the disappearance as Aimee was involved with her estranged son, Drew Van Dyne, a teacher at Aimee's school who gets her pregnant. She was trying to keep her from her strict father, Erik, who would have wanted a termination. The other missing girl, Katie Rochester, runs away from her father to be with her boyfriend Rufus but returns home. Promise Me (novel) Promise Me is a novel by Harlan Coben. It is the eighth novel in his series of a crime solver and sports agent named Myron Bolitar. It has been"
"person who had caused Myron's injury ten years ago, ending his career in professional basketball. The novel takes place in many different locations in the New York metropolitan area. The Continental Arena, home of the New Jersey Dragons is located in New Jersey, as is the main character, Myron Bolitar's hometown of Livingston. Myron's office is located in the same building as Locke-Horn Securities in Manhattan. A central location in the novel is the Meadowlands Arena, the home of the New Jersey Dragons, where Myron plays professional basketball for the first time. Much of the novel takes place within the"
"was actually the first written and, according to the internal chronology of the series, takes place earlier than the other Simeon Grist books. (According to Hallinan, the ""actual order of the Simeon Grist novels"" is ""Skin Deep"", ""The Four Last Things"", ""Everything But the Squeal"", ""Incinerator"", ""The Man With No Time"", ""The Bone Polisher"", and ""Pulped"". Thrillers set in Bangkok - a travel writer trying to make a life in the Thai capital. Comic thriller series about Junior Bender. Timothy Hallinan Timothy Hallinan (born 1949) is an American thriller writer, based in Southern California and Southeast Asia. In the 1990s,"
"Mark; wrote an original western inspired by the manhunt for legendary California bandit Joaquin Murieta at StudioCanal; and adapted Joe Haldeman's novella ""Seasons"", about an anthropological mission that goes horribly wrong, for director Tim Miller and Sony Pictures. Currently Vintar is scripting a feature film adaptation of Philip K. Dick's celebrated mind-bending science-fiction novel, Ubik. Venturing into television, Vintar co-wrote an adaptation of Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon for Syfy; co-created his first TV show about a town filled with pulp characters, The Riviera, at Fox International Channels; and scripted a second season episode of Philip K. Dick's Electric"
"2017 for its lesbian romance subplot. Meddling Kids Meddling Kids is a 2017 horror-comedy novel by Catalan author Edgar Cantero, published by Doubleday and Blumhouse Books. It deals with a former gang of children detectives, in the vein of Enid Blyton's Famous Five or ""Scooby-Doo"" who reunite in their mid-twenties to reopen a case that traumatized them as kids and expose a plot of Lovecraftian horror. The novel opens with a newspaper clip from 1977 featuring the ""Blyton Summer Detective Club"", a bunch of young investigators, aged 11–13, who solved the mystery of an alleged monster haunting the area of"
"Fortabat"" have not been held again. ""The Anatomist"" was published by Editorial Planeta in 1997, translated into over thirty languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide. His second novel, ""Las piadosas"" (The Merciful Women), a Gothic fantasy set in Geneva, exploring the relationship between Lord Byron, his secretary Polidori and Mary Shelley, was published in 1998. In 1998 the publishing house Temas published ""El árbol de las tentaciones"", a small volume containing short stories that obtained awards. The three short stories begin in the same way and are located in similar settings of nineteenth-century Argentina. In 2000 he published"
"Financial thriller Financial thriller is a subgenre of thriller fiction in which the financial system and economy play a major role. The novel ""The Financier"" (1912) by Theodore Dreiser displays elements of a financial thriller. Paul Erdman helped popularize the modern financial thriller, with ""The Billion Dollar Sure Thing"" (1973). The former president of a Swiss bank, he penned the novel while in jail awaiting trial on fraud charges related to speculating in the cocoa market. In many cases the protagonist of a financial thriller is a financial professional such as Christian Slater’s character in the 2005 film ""The Deal"","
"(1998), ""State of Play"" (2009), and ""Madras Cafe"" (2013). In the 1990s and early 2000s, many horror films and thrillers started to blend mystery and suspense into stories centered around clever, sociopathic serial killers or various mysterious supernatural occurrences. The Hannibal Lecter novels by Thomas Harris have inspired four films, ""Manhunter"" (1986), the Academy Award-winning ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991), ""Hannibal"" (2001), and ""Red Dragon"" (2002). Other films in which this blend occurs include ""When the Bough Breaks"" (1994), ""Seven"" (1995), ""Kiss the Girls"" (1997), adapted from the James Patterson novel, ""The Bone Collector"" (1999), ""Mercy"" (2000), ""Along Came"
"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."
"and sorcery sequences. The Pusadian series (from 1951), composed of the novel ""The Tritonian Ring"" and several short stories, is set in an antediluvian era similar to Howard's. More substantial is the Novarian series (from 1968), of which the core is the Reluctant King trilogy, beginning with ""The Goblin Tower"", de Camp's most accomplished effort in the genre, continuing in ""The Clocks of Iraz"", and concluding with ""The Unbeheaded King"". The trilogy features the adventurer Jorian, ex-king of Xylar. Jorian's world is an alternate reality to which our own serves as an afterlife. Other novels in the sequence include ""The"
"adventure. He has written fantasy novels such as ""El bibliobús mágico"" and ""El rugido de la vida"". Mystery novels such as ""Bárbara y el misterio de Ariadna"", ""La visita del vampiro"", ""Los extraños vecinos del bajo B"" and ""Donde vive el miedo"". Horror novels such as """". Children's literature such as ""No, no y no"" and ""Un hogar para Dog"". Psychological novels such as ""La magia del samurái"". Social novels such as ""La camiseta de Óscar"". Adventure novels such as ""El desafío de la leyenda"" and ""El hijo del ladrón"". His literary corpus reflects an attempt to sculpt the deflected"
"detective Ingvar Nyman to assist in solving the crime. They discover that they are pursuing a hit man, working for an American religious sect. In the second series, President of the United States Helen Tyler goes missing during a state visit to Sweden. Inger Johanne is partnered with Nyman and detailed to work with Warren Schifford, an FBI agent and Special Advisor to the president, to investigate. Vik and Schifford have history, dating from her time with the FBI. Modus (TV series) Modus is a Swedish television psychological thriller series, directed by Lisa Siwe and Mani Maserrat, based upon the"
"actor. In 2013, Barer consulted for a new television pilot for ""The Saint,"" starring Adam Rayner as Simon Templar. Barer is the author of true crime non-fiction books, including ""Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne"", which was nominated for an Anthony Award by the World Mystery Convention in the category of Best True Crime, ""Murder in the Family"", ""Body Count"", ""Head Shot"", ""Mom Said Kill"", ""Fatal Beauty"", and ""Broken Doll"". Barer and co-writer Frank Girardot collaborated on the 2016 true crime tale ""A Taste for Murder"". The two authors reunited that same year to write ""Betrayal in Blue"""
"written about astanga vinyasa yoga. He was the Observer newspaper’s crime fiction critic 1999-2011. Between 1996 and 2005 he wrote an award-winning series of satirical crime novels featuring a yoga-obsessed journalist, Nick Madrid, and his tough-as-nails sidekick, Bridget Frost. His latest publications are the non-comic Brighton crime trilogy: ""The City of Dreadful Night"", ""The Last King of Brighton"" and ""The Thing Itself"" (formerly ""God's Lonely Man""). The Trilogy and later Brighton books are published in French by Le Rouergue. A fourth Brighton novel, ""The Devil's Moon"", was published in 2013. A fifth, ""Those Who Feel Nothing"", was published in May"
"dark and edgy horror/thriller spec script from Melton & Dunstan titled The Neighbor for a six-figures. Additionally, the writing team of Melton & Dunstan have performed writing duties on Lionsgate's ""My Bloody Valentine 3D"", ""Piranha 3D"" by Alexandre Aja, a remake of Clive Barker's Hellraiser, a remake of William Castle's classic horror film ""The Tingler"" at Columbia Pictures for producer Neal Moritz, a remake of ""Scanners"" by David Cronenberg, a film adaptation of the classic sci-fi TV anthology ""The Outer Limits"" for MGM, and the upcoming action/adventure tentpole ""Pacific Rim"" by Guillermo Del Toro for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros."
"about an American pilot who operates a small tourist flying agency in the Amazonian jungle, and ""Martin Mystère"" (1982), featuring an anthropologist/archaeologist/art historian who investigates paranormal phenomena and archaeological mysteries. Another popular series, ""Diabolik"" featuring a criminal mastermind, has been published since the 1960s, and influenced later series such as ""Kriminal"" and ""Satanik"" (see ""Fumetti neri""). The latter was created in the 1960s by one of the most famous duos of comics history, Magnus & Bunker, whose most outstanding creation, however, is the humorous espionage series ""Alan Ford"" (1969). Another famous author of humouristic strips is Franco Bonvicini, whose ""Sturmtruppen"""
"thrillers. Under his real name Gary Goshgarian, he published his first three, ""Atlantis Fire"", ""Rough Beast"" and ""The Stone Circle"". Under the pen name Gary Braver, he published ""Elixir"" (2000); ""Gray Matter"" (2002); ""Flashback"" (the only thriller to have won a Massachusetts Book Award for fiction from the Massachusetts Center for the Book (2006); and ""Skin Deep"" (2008). Braver’s most recent novel ""Tunnel Vision"" (2010) centers on a Boston graduate student who gets involved in a secret project involving near-death experience. The book was named one of the ""best books of the summer"" by WGBH's ""The Emily Rooney Show"" and"
"and show writer for the children's series ""LazyTown"", produced in Iceland. He worked on the full-length feature realization of the Newberry Award-winning “Maniac Magee” (2003), action thrillers like “Madrassa Song” (2013) and “Six Dead Dogs” (2016), as well as a multitude of features for various Hyderabad studios: “5 ½ Hours to Dawn” (2001), “Little John” (2002); “Son of Alladin” (2003), “Eshan” (2006), “Lost Voyage of Sinbad” (2007), and “The Dictator of the Darkness” (2011). He is a two-time Emmy award winner and a recipient of the Humanitas Prize. In 2018, Aperient Press published the first thriller in his new “Tales"
"Meddling Kids Meddling Kids is a 2017 horror-comedy novel by Catalan author Edgar Cantero, published by Doubleday and Blumhouse Books. It deals with a former gang of children detectives, in the vein of Enid Blyton's Famous Five or ""Scooby-Doo"" who reunite in their mid-twenties to reopen a case that traumatized them as kids and expose a plot of Lovecraftian horror. The novel opens with a newspaper clip from 1977 featuring the ""Blyton Summer Detective Club"", a bunch of young investigators, aged 11–13, who solved the mystery of an alleged monster haunting the area of Sleepy Lake in Oregon. Thirteen years"
"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."
"The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal The Misfortunes of Mr. Teal is a collection of three mystery novellas by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1934 by Hodder and Stoughton and the United States by The Crime Club. The book was republished under two additional titles: The Saint in England and, as of 1952, The Saint in London (not to be confused with ""The Saint in London"", a 1939 RKO film based upon a story in an earlier Saint volume, ""The Holy Terror""). This was the 12th volume of stories featuring the Robin Hood-inspired character, Simon Templar,"
"Rob Thurman Robyn Thurman, writing under the name Rob Thurman, is a ""New York Times"" Best Selling American novelist. To date, she has written three series and two short stories, totaling 17 books, and has been published in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan. Her Cal Leandros series and her Trickster series share the same universe, and are classified as urban fantasy. Her Korsak Brothers series is a sci-fi thriller. In the short story anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe she was featured among other prominent urban fantasy writers like Charlaine Harris, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Patricia Briggs. Thurman did"
"inflation, the history of economics and Adam Smith, Keynes['] economic theory, the theory of contemporary neoclassical economists, and does so in a way that even high school students would understand[.]"" Financial thriller Financial thriller is a subgenre of thriller fiction in which the financial system and economy play a major role. The novel ""The Financier"" (1912) by Theodore Dreiser displays elements of a financial thriller. Paul Erdman helped popularize the modern financial thriller, with ""The Billion Dollar Sure Thing"" (1973). The former president of a Swiss bank, he penned the novel while in jail awaiting trial on fraud charges related"