Paul Cleave is the author of five previous international bestselling thrillers, including The Cleaner, The Killing Hour, Cemetery Lake, Blood Men, and Collecting Cooper. He lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.
John Connolly is the author of Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The White Road, Bad Men, Nocturnes, and The Black Angel. He is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and lives in Dublin, Ireland.
William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of ten Cork O'Connor novels, including Heaven's Keep and Vermilion Drift. All are available from Atria Books. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family.
Liza Marklund is an author, journalist, columnist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She is also the co-owner of the publishing house Piratförlaget. Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written ten novels and one nonfiction book. Her crime novels featuring the gutsy reporter Annika Bengtzon instantly became an international hit, and Marklund’s books have sold 9 million copies in 30 languages to date.
Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, South Africa, and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She is a filmmaker with three award-winning films to her credit and is currently at work on her next novel.
Spencer Quinn lives on Cape Cod with his dog, Audrey. He is currently working on the next Chet and Bernie novel.
Gillian Royes was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, and later went on to the University of Wisconsin and Emory University, where she earned a doctorate in American Studies. Royes is the author of Business is Good and Sexcess: The New Gender Rules at Work. The Goat Woman of Largo Bay is her first work of fiction. She lives in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Blair Underwood is an author and award-winning actor, director, and producer. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Tananarive Due is an American Book Award–winning, Essence bestselling author of Blood Colony, The Living Blood, The Good House, and Joplin's Ghost, and coauthor of the NAACP Image Award–winning Tennyson Hardwick mystery series. She lives in the Atlanta area with her husband and coauthor Steven Barnes.
Thomas Enger is a former journalist and a music composer. Burned is his first crime novel. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
After being awarded the Swedish equivalent to the Whitbread Award for his debut novel Pesetas, Mons Kallentoft chose to give his own unique take on the classic Scandinavian crime novel. His success was immediate. The first book in the series about superintendent Malin Fors received unanimous praise from the national critics; it also conquered the bestseller charts and has today sold more than 300,000 copies in Sweden alone.
Walter Mosley is the author of five Easy Rawlins mysteries: Devil in A Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, Black Betty and A Little Yellow Dog; three non-mystery novels, Blue Light, Gone Fishin', and R. L.'s Dream; two collections of stories featuring Socrates Fortlow, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield Wolf Award, and which was an HBO movie, and a nonfiction book, Workin' on the Chain Gang.
Kristina Ohlsson is a counterterrorism officer in Europe and has worked as a security police analyst for the National Swedish Police Board. Originally from southern Sweden, she now lives in Vienna, Austria.
M.J. Rose is the international bestselling author of eleven novels, including The Reincarnationist, The Memorist, and The Hypnotist. She is a founding member and board member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz.com.
A. D. Scott was born in the Highlands of Scotland and educated at Inverness Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. She has worked in theatre, in magazines, and as a knitwear designer and currently lives in Vietnam and north of Sydney, Australia.
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ATRIA INTERNATIONAL MYSTERIES AUTHORS
Paul Cleave | John Connolly | William Kent Krueger | John Lescroart | David Lyons | Liza Marklund | Louise Millar | Malla Nunn | Spencer Quinn
Gillian Royes | Blair Underwood | Tananarive Due | Thomas Enger | Mons Kallentoft | Simon Kernick | Walter Mosley | Kristina Ohlsson
M.J. Rose | A.D. Scott
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John Lescroart is the author of more than twenty previous novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Damage, Treasure Hunt, and The 13th Juror. He lives in Northern California.
David Lyons was born in England, but he was raised and educated in the U.S. and abroad. After obtaining his license to practice law, David pursued advanced studies in international law and worked in Paris, France. He is currently at work on his next novel.
Simon Kernick is a Sunday Times #1 bestselling author and one of the UK's foremost thriller writers. His twelve novels have been translated into more than twenty languages and have sold more than four million copies worldwide, and his fifth book, Relentless, was the UK's bestselling thriller of 2007. He lives in London.