Love is Murder (45 page)
Authors: Sandra Brown
In the past three years,
New York
Times
bestselling author
SHERRILYN KENYON
has claimed the number-one spot sixteen times. This extraordinary bestseller
continues to top every genre she writes. With more than twenty-five million
copies of her books in print in over one hundred countries, her current series
include:
The Dark-Hunters, The League, Chronicles of Nick,
and
Belador
. Since 2004, she has placed more
than fifty novels on the
New York Times
list in all
formats including manga. The preeminent voice in paranormal fiction, with more
than twenty years of publishing credits in all genres, Kenyon not only helped to
pioneer, but define the current paranormal trend that has captivated the world.
For more on Sherrilyn visit
www.SherrilynKenyon.com
.
JON LAND
is the acclaimed
author of thirty thrillers, including the bestselling Caitlin Strong Texas
Ranger series
Strong Enough To Die, Strong Justice, Strong
at the Break,
and
Strong Vengeance
(July
2012). There are over seven million copies of his books in print in dozens of
countries and six languages. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and can be
found on the web at
www.jonlandbooks.com
.
New York Times
bestseller
DIANNA LOVE
spent her early years dangling over a
hundred feet in the air to create unusual marketing projects for Fortune 500
companies. Now she’s released her energetic muse on writing high-octane
thrillers and urban fantasy. Her first book won the prestigious RITA Award (as
Dianna Love Snell) and she now coauthors with number one
New York Times
bestseller Sherrilyn Kenyon. The latest Kenyon-Love
collaboration has resulted in the Belador urban fantasy series that debuted on
the
New York Times,
USA TODAY, Publishers
Weekly
and Walmart bestseller lists in 2010 with
Blood Trinity
. The next Belador novel,
Atlerant,
was released September 2011 and
Cathbad’s Curse
will be out September 2012. When not
speaking at national and international events throughout the year, Dianna lives
in the metro Atlanta area with her motorcycle-instructor husband. For more on
Dianna visit
www.AuthorDiannaLove.com
.
D. P. LYLE
, M.D. is the
Macavity Award winning and Edgar® Award nominated author of the nonfiction
books,
Murder & Mayhem, Forensics For Dummies,
Forensics & Fiction, Forensics & Fiction 2,
and
Howdunnit: Forensics
as well as the Samantha Cody
thrillers
Devil’s Playground
and
Double Blind,
the Dub Walker Thrillers
Stress Fracture
and
Hot Lights,
Cold Steel,
and the media tie-in novels
Royal
Pains: First, Do No Harm
and
Royal Pains: Sick
Rich
based on the hit TV series. His essay on Jules Verne’s
The Mysterious Island
appears in
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads
.
He has worked with many novelists and with the writers of
popular television shows such as
Law & Order, CSI:
Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case, House,
Medium, Women’s Murder Club, 1-800-Missing, The Glades,
and
Pretty Little Liars.
He is a practicing cardiologist in Orange County,
California.
Website:
www.dplylemd.com
Blog:
http://writersforensicsblog.wordpress.com
JAMES MACOMBER
is the author
of the international legal thrillers featuring former Special Forces/NSA/CIA
operator, now lawyer, John Cann—whom
Booklist
described as a “strong, multilayered protagonist with the star power to keep
this series going for a very long time”—along with an ensemble cast of memorable
characters in a Washington, D.C., international law firm with very close ties to
the intelligence community.
At one time or another, Macomber has been a serviceman,
student, bartender, waiter, salesman, tennis instructor, actor, lawyer,
photographer and writer. This eclectic background—or checkered past—is reflected
in the range of subject matter for his novels, which include terrorist networks
in academia in
Bargained for Exchange,
assassinations in the Netherlands during the trial of the Pan Am 103 Lockerbie
bombers in
Art & Part,
atrocities, international
crime and human trafficking with the Bosnian war crimes trials as the backdrop
in
A Grave Breach
and, in
Sovereign
Order,
the horrifying prospect of a catastrophic WMD
attack on the “crown jewel of Formula 1 racing”, the Monaco Grand Prix.
When he’s not hanging out on Siesta Key, Florida, Jim is
completing work on his fifth novel,
Extraordinary
Rendition.
Visit his website at
www.jamesmacomber.com
.
TONI MCGEE CAUSEY
is the
author of the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling “Bobbie Faye”
novels—an action/caper series set in south Louisiana; the series was released in
back-to-back publications, beginning with
Charmed and
Dangerous, Girls Just Wanna Have Guns
and
When a
Man Loves a Weapon
. While pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting as well as
a Masters in Philosophy, Toni had scripts optioned by prominent studios and,
just last year, produced an indie film,
LA-308,
which now has offers of distribution pending. Toni began her career by writing
nonfiction for local newspapers, edited
Baton Rouge
Magazine,
and sold articles to places like
Redbook
and
Mademoiselle
.
She was a contributor to the anthology
Do You Know What It
Means To Miss New Orleans,
as well as
Killer
Year: Stories to Die For
. She has had several of her blogs syndicated
nationally from the group blog, “Murderati,” and she can currently be found at
“Murder She Writes.” In her other life, she and her husband are the owners of a
construction company which specializes in civil construction. She and her
husband reside in New Orleans.
New York Times
bestselling
author
CARLA NEGGERS
is always plotting her next
adventure, whether in life or for one of her books. Her fertile imagination and
curious nature make her ready for anything. It is also these qualities that
sparked her love of reading as a child and continue to drive her passion for
storytelling today. With her compelling blend of action, suspense and
down-to-earth, realistic characters caught up in extraordinary circumstances,
her novels never fail to take her readers on an exciting journey.
With more than sixty novels published and translations in
dozens of languages, Carla most appreciates those moments when she feels she’s
gotten the story just right—when it all comes together on the pages of her book,
exactly the way she’s envisioned the tale in her mind. Then, when readers
connect with the story, her satisfaction is complete.
When she’s not working on her next book, Carla enjoys
traveling, hiking, kayaking and spending time with her large extended family.
She’s always planning the next trip—and the next adventure—either of which just
might inspire a new story.
Carla lives with her husband in Vermont on a hilltop not far
from picturesque Quechee Gorge.
“When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took
me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,”
BRENDA NOVAK
says. “I learned how to write by reading what others have written. The
best advice for any would-be author: read, read,
read
… .”
Brenda sold her first book, and the rest is history. A
New York Times
and
USA
TODAY
bestselling author of forty novels, Brenda Novak has been
nominated for a prestigious RITA Award three times and won The National Reader’s
Choice Award, the Bookbuyer’s Best, the Bookseller’s Best, the Writer Touch
Reader Award, the Golden Quill, the Hold Medallion and the Award of Excellence,
among others.
Brenda and her husband, Ted, live in Sacramento and are the
proud parents of five children—three girls and two boys. She juggles her writing
career with her children’s softball and soccer games, field trips, carpool runs
and homework sessions. When she’s not spending time with her family or writing,
Brenda is usually working on her annual fundraiser for diabetes research—an
online auction held on her website (
www.brendanovak.com
) every May. To
date, she has raised nearly $1.4 million for this cause.
With more than six million books in print—eighty-nine
novels for Harlequin, Silhouette, HarperCollins, Dell and Del Rey—
PATRICIA ROSEMOOR
still finds new story forms and new
characters that excite her.
Detective Shelley Caldwell first appeared in
Hot Case,
a Silhouette Bombshell. Combining her love
of thrillers with urban fantasy with romance, Patricia experimented with 1st/3rd
person. To her good fortune, she was able to reprise her characters and world in
Hot Trick,
a Carina Press digital first novel,
and in the short story
Hot Corpse,
also available in
digital formats. She was delighted to continue the series with
Hot Note
.
Patricia has received two Career Achievement Awards and two
Reviewers’ Choice Best Novel Awards from
RT Book
Reviews
. Her career as an author took off when she won a Golden Heart
from Romance Writers of America for Best Young Adult Romance. In her other life,
she teaches credit courses—Writing Popular Fiction and Suspense Thriller
Writing—in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago.
Since 2002,
WILLIAM SIMON
has
been the owner and lead investigator for a licensed firm that handles computer
forensics and electronic evidence exclusively. This work has led to a few
interesting experiences.
He has a ridiculously broad-range DVD collection, listens to
little else but music from the 1950s, still reads Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and is
proud of the fact that he saw both Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin—live and on
stage—in Las Vegas, many years ago.
Earlier works published under the pseudonym “Will Graham”
include
Street Heat
and
Sometimes, There Really Are Monsters Under the Bed
, both available
in ebook editions.
Spider’s
Dance,
a full-length novel featuring Nicholas White,
is also available.
His website is:
www.wmsimon.com
ALEXANDRA SOKOLOFF
is the
author of the supernatural thrillers
The Harrowing, The
Price
,
The
Unseen, Book of Shadows,
and
The Space Between,
the paranormal romance,
The
Shifters,
and the paranormal trilogy
Twist of
Fate,
and is a coauthor of the paranormal Keepers series, with
Heather Graham and Harley Jane Kozak. She is a Thriller Award winner and a Bram
Stoker and Anthony Award nominee. The
New York Times
Book Review called her novels “Some of the most original and freshly unnerving
work in the genre.”
As a screenwriter, Alex has sold original thriller scripts and
adapted novels for numerous Hollywood studios, for producers such as Michael
Bay, Laura Ziskin, David Heyman and Neal Moritz. She has served on the Board of
Directors of the Writers Guild of America, west, and the board of the Mystery
Writers of America.
In nonfiction, Alex is the author of
Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!),
and
Writing Love,
workbooks based on her internationally
acclaimed blog and workshops.
In her spare time (!) she performs with Heather Graham’s
all-author Slush Pile Players and dances every chance she gets.
http://screenwritingtricks.com
ROXANNE ST. CLAIRE
is a
New York Times
bestselling author of twenty-seven
novels of suspense and romance. Her most popular romantic suspense novels
feature an elite cadre of bodyguards called The Bullet Catchers. In addition,
she has published a trilogy focused on a family-based security firm known as The
Guardian Angelinos. In 2012, Roxanne is launching a contemporary romance series
set in fictional Barefoot Bay, as well as her first young adult novel,
Don’t You Wish
.
In addition to being a five-time RITA nominee and one-time RITA
winner, Roxanne’s novels have won the National Reader’s Choice Award for best
romantic suspense for two consecutive years, as well as the Daphne du Maurier
Award, the HOLT Medallion, the Maggie, Booksellers Best, Book Buyers Best, and
many others. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages and are
routinely included as a Doubleday/Rhapsody Book Club Selection of the Month.
Roxanne lives in Florida with her husband and two teens, and
can be reached via her website,
www.roxannestclaire.com
or
on her Facebook reader page,
www.facebook.com/roxannestclaire
.
MARIAH STEWART
is the
award-winning
New York Times, USA TODAY
and
Publishers Weekly
bestselling author of thirty novels,
three novellas and three short stories, and has been featured in the
Wall Street Journal
. Her books are currently published
by both Pocket Books and Ballantine Books. She has the unique distinction of
having had the same agent and the same editorial team for every one of her
novels.