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Bestselling Mystery & Suspense Authors at The Kate!
Join us for an evening of delightful conversation with your favorite mystery and suspense authors!
Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, Adrift, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
Tess's first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008), Ice Cold (2010), The Silent Girl (2011), and her forthcoming Last To Die (August 2012.) Her books have been published in forty countries, and more than 25 million copies have been sold around the world.
Her series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the TNT television series "Rizzoli & Isles" starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander.
John Searles was born and raised in New England, the son of a truck-driver father and stay-at-home mom. When he was a teen, his parents announced that they were going to start sending him trucking with his dad in order to "make a man out of him." Since there was only so long he could stare out the window or listen to the crackle of other truckers' voices on the CB, John began devouring books on those trips most were by Stephen King and John Irving, since those were the mass market titles available at truck stops, along with his father's trucker erotica, which John would sneak out from their hiding place beneath the mattress in the back. Those books, and all the miles on the road, might not have made a man out of him in the way his parents intended, but they did make him a reader and writer.
John began writing Boy Still Missing after the first sentence came to him while cleaning under his bed. In 2001, the book was published and went on to become a national bestseller. Hailed as "riveting" by The New York Times and "hypnotic" by Entertainment Weekly, the novel inspired Time magazine to name him a "Person to Watch" and the New York Daily News to name him a "New Yorker to Watch." His second novel, Strange but True, also a national bestseller, was praised as "sinister and complex" by Janet Maslin of The New York Times and "extraordinary" by Publishers Weekly. Both novels have been optioned for film, and John wrote the screenplay to Strange but True, which has been purchased by GreeneStreet Films in partnership with award-winning producer Ross Katz and will be filmed in Canada in Fall 2013.
John frequently appears on NBC's Today Show and CBS's The Early Show to discuss his favorite book selections. He has also appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, Live! With Regis and Kelly, and CNN. His essays, articles and reviews have been published in the Washington Post, The New York Times, Redbook, Out, The Daily Beast, and many other national magazines and newspapers.
New York Times and internationally bestselling author Lisa Unger's accolades include selections as an International Thriller Writers "Best Novel" finalist, a Silver Medal winner in the Florida Book Awards, a Prix Polar International Award finalist, and a Target "Emerging Author." Her writing has been hailed as "stellar" (USA Today), "sophisticated" (New York Daily News) and "meaningful" (Washington Post) with "gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose" (Associated Press). Her novels have been named Indie Next, Walmart Book Club, Today, Good Morning America, Harper's Bazaar, Washington Life, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Publishers Weekly Best Book, International Book of the Month, and Amazon Top Ten Thriller picks. More than 1.7 million copies of her books have been sold in twenty-six languages. She lives in Florida.
Alafair Burke is the author of two power house series that have earned her a reputation for creating strong, believable, and eminently likable female characters, such as NYPD Detective Ellie Hatcher and Portland Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid. Alafair's novels grow out of her experience as a prosecutor in America's police precincts and criminal courtrooms, and have been featured by The Today Show, People Magazine, The New York Times, MSNBC, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Chicago Sun-Times. According to Entertainment Weekly, Alafair "is a terrific web spinner" who "knows when and how to drop clues to keep readers at her mercy."
David Handler: a recovering journalist who was born and raised in Los Angeles and wrote two highly acclaimed novels about growing up there, Kiddo and Boss, before resorting to a life of crime fiction. He is the Edgar Award-winning author of the Stewart Hoag and Berger & Mitry mysteries. He has also won an American Mystery Award and been a finalist for the Anthony, Dilys and Derringer Awards. Runaway Man, his first novel to feature the feisty 137-pound New York City private eye Benji Golden, debuted last fall. He is currently at work on a sequel. His tenth Berger & Mitry novel, The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb, will be published in March by Minotaur. Mr. Handler, who has written extensively for television and film on both coasts, presently lives in a 200-year-old carriage house in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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