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Jan Burke (born August 1, 1953) is an American author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the Agatha Award for Best Short Story, the Macavity Award , and Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award .
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery or hard-boiled.Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
Andrew Vachss was the author of 33 novels and three collections of short stories, as well as poetry, plays, song lyrics, and graphic novels. [16] As a novelist, he was perhaps best known for his Burke series of hardboiled mysteries; Another Life [17] constituted the finale to the series.
The series is based on the true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years by a charismatic, obsessed family “friend.” Yancey will play ...
Carolyn Hart (also known as Carolyn G. Hart) is an American mystery and suspense writer. She is the author of 63 books, including the Death on Demand, Henrie O and Bailey Ruth series.
Reviews of The New Iberia Blues were mixed. Some readers and critics praised the novel's rich emotion and nuanced characters. Kirkus Reviews wrote that the story had a "powerful emotional charge" and remarked that while many of the character types and plot devices are familiar from Burke's earlier works, the storytelling still feels fresh and impactful. [1]
AHMM was founded in 1956 by HSD Publications, which licensed the use of the director's name. Though there was no formal connection with the television show, stories published in the magazine were sometimes adapted by the producers of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and later, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
He married a mobster's widow, Bootsie, a lupus sufferer, and adopted an El Salvadoran orphan Alafair (the namesake of Burke's own daughter), after he saves her from the wreckage of an airplane. After Bootsie's death, he marries Molly, a former nun. He was married before the book series started, to a woman named Nicole.