Age: 56 Height/weight: 6 feet, 5 inches; 210 pounds Residence: Boca Raton, Fla. The sixth book in King’s Max Freeman crime series, Midnight Guardians (Open Road), puts Max in the middle of players who have melded Medicare fraud and prescription drug dealing into a deadly combination. It’s truly a South Florida novel. King’s first mystery, [...]

Age: Confidential! But I’m a masters runner (over 35) and a martial artist—aikido Height/weight: 5 feet, 6 inches; 120 pounds Residence: Chicago Freveletti’s first thriller, 2009’s Running from the Devil (William Morrow), is about Emma Caldridge, an ultramarathoner and chemist whose plane crashes on a flight from Miami to Bogota. It was named the best [...]

Age: 60-ish Height/weight: 5 feet, 11 inches; 205 pounds Residence: Pinecrest (Miami), Fla. Standiford’s next book is Bringing Adam Home (Ecco), the true story of Detective Joe Matthew’s 27-year quest to bring the killer of Adam Walsh, son of America’s Most Wanted creator John Walsh, to justice. Standiford has written 10 novels, including the John [...]

Photo / Phoebe Webb Age: 60 Height/weight: 5 feet, 10 inches; 210 pounds Residence: Sanibel, Fla. White has written 17 mystery novels featuring marine biologist Doc Ford, including 2010’s Deep Shadow (Putnam), which reached number six on the New York Times best-sellers list. His first novel, Sanibel Flats (St. Martin’s), was chosen by the American [...]

Age: Pushing 60 Height/weight: 5 feet, 3 inches and trying not to shrink. I never weigh myself. If I get muffin-top when I put on my jeans, it’s time to cut back. Residence: Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Killing Song (Pocket Books), will be the first stand-alone thriller written by Parrish, a New York Times best-selling [...]

Unger is a New York Times best-selling mystery novelist whose 2010 book Fragile (Crown) was chosen as a “top book pick for great summer reads” on Good Morning America and selected as a “hot book” by Harper’s Bazaar. Beautiful Lies (Vintage) was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers’ best novel. LisaUnger.com Why do you [...]

Age: 58 Height: 5 feet, 10 inches Residence: Nacogdoches, Texas Lansdale has written mystery, suspense, horror, sci-fi and other novels and stories. His 2000 mystery The Bottoms (Mysterious Press) won the Edgar Award for best novel and was named a New York Times notable book of the year; it was released in paperback last week [...]

Age: Older than I think … Height/weight: 5 feet, 4 inches; 130 pounds In more than three dozen military and techno thrillers, and a military history titled Rangers at Dieppe (Berkley), DeFelice has explored the effects of war, politics, terrorism and technology on ordinary soldiers and civilians. He is best known for collaborating on best-selling [...]

Weston’s Midtown Athletic Club and Pembroke Pines’ The Center for Medical Weight Loss on University Drive are teaming up to offer the “Ultimate Weight Loss Challenge: Feel Great in Eight.” The eight-week weight-loss competition is taking place from Sept. 15 to Nov. 3. Since America has an obesity epidemic, which kills and debilitates countless people, [...]

  The Palm Beach County Sports Commission announced that it supports H.R. 2105, the Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2009. According to the commission’s executive director Gerry Baron, the PHIT Act is legislation, pending in Congress, that will “allow for reimbursement of physical activity expenses using pre-tax dollars; reducing the costs of physical activity [...]