Mystery Books
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The Charm School#1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage p
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Moment of TruthWhen attorney Jack Newlin discovers his wife dead in their home, he's convinced he knows who killed her—and is equally determ
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Die Trying (Jack Reacher, No. 2)See Jack Reacher now in his first major motion picture. When a woman is kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad dayli
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The Plague Files: Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century SevilleIn the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city fa
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The Cat Who Went into the ClosetQwill's moved into the old Gage mansion--and the cats are on a treasure hunt! The house's fifty closets are crammed with seve
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Manhattan Is My Beat (Rune Trilogy)Five feet two inches of slick repartee, near-purple hair, and poetic imagination, twenty-year-old Rune hasn't been in Manhattan fo
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The Fifth Witness (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused
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Mystery Movies
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The ArrivalCalling this 1996 science fiction thriller "a glorified B movie," isn't a criticism. Writer-director David Twohy managed to get in
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SolarisSuperstar George Clooney turns in a stellar performance in this "brilliant sci-fi movie" (New York Daily News) from Academy Award
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Vanilla SkyTom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz. Cameron Crowe's thrilling remake of Open Your Eyes , a sexy psychological tale of wealth,
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The Ninth GateDVD
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Primal FearDVD
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Mystery Authors
Max Allan Collins biography
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer. He has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations and historical fiction. He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition (which was developed into a film in 2002), created the comic book private eye Ms. Tree, and took over writing the Dick Tracy comic strip from creator Chester Gould and one of the Batman comic books for a time. He wrote books to expand on the Dark Angel TV series. He has also written books and comics based on the TV series franchise CSI. More recently, he has written a book, Buried Deep, based on the TV Series Bones.
Collins's longest running series and arguably his best known work is his Nathan Heller series. Heller is a Chicago private investigator who gets involved in famous crimes and meets famous people of the 1930s and 1940s, including Orson Welles, Frank Nitti, and Sally Rand. The first novel in this historical fiction series, True Detective, won the 1984 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Hardcover from the Private Eye Writers of America. Collins won his second Shamus in 1992 for the Heller novel Stolen Away, an account of the Lindbergh kidnapping. His 1999 novel Flying Blind sees Heller investigate the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, along the way becoming romantically involved with her. The most recent book in this series, Chicago Confidential, moved the action into the 1950s. Collins has recently announced that he has completed a new entry in the series, due out in June 2011, about Marilyn Monroe. He has begun research on a Nate Heller novel about the JFK assassination.[
Information source: wikipedia