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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 [...]
Thriller and mystery novels get readers’ hearts pumping fast, just like outdoor sports, and with New Year’s resolutions kicking in soon we’re profiling the workouts and diets of 16 top authors in the genre. Their answers are inspiring, intimidating, and funny. While compiling these fitness profiles, 85 percent of the novelists that SFA’s David [...]
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: 43 Height/weight: 6 feet, 4 inches; 235 pounds Residence: Memphis, Tennessee Greaney’s debut international thriller The Gray Man (Jove Books) became a 2009 best seller and was nominated for a Barry Award in the best thriller category; a feature film adaptation is in development by New Regency Pictures. His next thriller, On Target, was [...]
Height/weight: 6 feet, 3 inches; 200 pounds Residence: Tampa, Fla. Kuzneski’s new thriller is The Prophecy (Putnam). When the prophetic writings of 16th-century visionary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Jonathon Payne and David Jones find themselves in a life-or-death race across the world to stop those who would use the French seer’s predictions for [...]
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 [...]
