Mystery Books

  • The Second Time Around: A Novel

    The "Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark, delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing twists that might have been

  • The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, Book 3)

    In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies all murdered and mutila

  • Los Alamos

    In a dusty, remote community of secretly constructed buildings and awesome possibility, the world's most brilliant minds have come

  • Stillwatch

    "I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME..."Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's pa

  • Deep Storm

    In this explosive new thriller, one of the most incredible and frightening discoveries mankind has ever faced is about to surface.

  • Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel

    “The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town servi

  • Honeybath's Haven

    When portrait painter and occasional detective, Charles Honeybath, pays a visit to his old friend Edwin Lightfoot, there are a few

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Mystery Movies

  • Adaptation (Superbit Collection)

    The Superbit titles utilize a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice

  • Oldboy

    Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and

  • Moon
  • Shutter Island

    Academy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr

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Mystery Authors

John Sandford biography

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John Sandford

(1944 - )

John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist John Roswell Camp. Camp was born on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He received a B.A. in American History and a Masters in Journalism from the University of Iowa. Camp worked for the Miami Herald from 1971 to 1978. In 1978 he moved to Minneapolis and started working for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press as a features reporter before becoming a daily columnist at the newspaper in 1980. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, for a series of stories on Native American culture. In 1986 he won the Pulitzer for Non-Deadline Feature Writing for a series of stories collectively titled "Life on the Land: An American Farm Family". The series, written during the midwest farm crisis, followed a typical southwest Minnesota farm family through the course of a full year. He stopped writing full-time for the Pioneer Press in 1989, although he didn't stop entirely until the next year.

In 1989 Camp wrote two novels that would become the first books of his two best-selling series. Both novels, The Fool's Run of the Kidd series and Rules of Prey of the Prey series, were accepted and due to be published three months apart. The Fool's Run was published under the name "John Camp", but the publisher asked Camp to provide a pseudonym for Rules of Prey so it was published under the name "John Sandford". After the Prey series proved to be more popular, with its charismatic protagonist Lucas Davenport, The Fool's Run and all of its subsequent sequels have been published under the "Sandford" name.

In 2007 Sandford started a third series featuring Virgil Flowers, who previously was a supporting character in Invisible Prey.

Information source: wikipedia