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Looking for a book to give someone this holiday season? Consider David Raterman’s thriller, especially if you like international political thrillers. Raterman is South Florida Adventures’ editor. His book is on sale at Amazon for only $7.91 in paperback ($2.99 for ebook). “David Raterman has published what may be the first thriller set in Afghanistan [...]
Age: 50 Height/weight: 5 feet, 11 inches; 205 pounds Residence: Boynton Beach, Fla. Born has written five Florida mystery novels, including Escape Clause (Putnam), which won the gold medal in the inaugural Florida Book Awards. In June, under the pseudonym James O’Neal, he published The Double Human (Tor), a sci-fi novel set in Miami. For [...]
Age: 67 (which means for 62 years I’ve never acted my age) Height/weight: 6 feet, 4 inches; 220 pounds Residence: Lakeland, Fla., but please, no stalkers. I already have groupies camping in my driveway Corcoran’s recent mystery novel is Hawk Channel Chase (The Ketch & Yawl Press), his sixth Alex Rutledge mystery set primarily in [...]
Height/weight: 5 feet, 10 inches; 172 pounds Residence: Sarasota, Fla. For two consecutive years Bruns has won the Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association in the category best mystery of the year. His next mystery, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff (Oceanview Publishing), went on sale last week. DonBrunsBooks.com Why do you work [...]
Age: Kidding, right? Okay, I’ll play—I’m 53. Height/weight: 5 feet, 6 inches; 123 pounds (solid sinew and muscle) Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada Coonts’ debut novel Wanna Get Lucky? (Forge Books) was released in May and is the first in a series of funny, sexy, murder mysteries set amid the glamour, glitz and naughtiness of Las [...]
Age: 38 Height/weight: 5 feet, 7 inches; 132 pounds Residence: New York Davidson’s debut crime novel, The Damage Done (Forge Books), went on sale in September. It centers on a travel writer who is called home to New York after her sister dies, but she discovers that the corpse belongs to a woman who had [...]
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 [...]
Mysteries and thrillers provide cerebral adventures that get the blood pumping just like with physical adventures. So Delray’s Murder on the Beach, the only mystery/thriller bookstore in the region, shared its August best seller list with SouthFloridaAdventures.com. Jonathon King, No. 8 in the hardcover category, is a former college basketball player and former Sun Sentinel [...]
