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Susan Sherman is a former Chair of the Art Department of Whittier College, a small liberal arts university once attended by President Richard Nixon. She is also the co-creator of one of the most successful television shows for children in the history of the Disney Network. She applied the Page 69 Test to The Little Russian, her first novel, and reported the following:Although, sometimes I like

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Bill Fitzhugh is a writer. He’s published novels and short stories, has written television and film scripts, and he writes, produces, and hosts a show on the Deep Track Channel of Sirius-XM Satellite radio. He applied the Page 69 Test to his latest novel, The Exterminators, and reported the following: Hmmmm. Hard to put myself in everyone or anyone else's head. Page 69 of The Exterminators

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For eleven years Christopher Morgan Jones worked at the world’s largest business intelligence agency, Kroll International. He has advised Middle Eastern governments, Russian oligarchs, New York banks, London hedge funds, and African mining companies. He applied the Page 69 Test to The Silent Oligarch, his first novel, and reported the following: At a recent crime writers' event in a bookshop in

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Wessel Ebersohn is an internationally published author who was born and lives in South Africa. He applied the Page 69 Test to The October Killings—the first book in a new series marking his return to crime fiction—and reported the following: Page 69 contains perhaps the key moment in the story. It is here that the two central protagonists meet for the first time. Abigail Bukula, a prosecutor in

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Colin Cotterill is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. He applied the Page 69 Test to Slash and Burn, his latest novel, and reported the following: I checked out page 69 of the Quercus hardback edition of Slash and Burn, number eight in the Siri Paiboun series. It contained a nice little mystery within a mystery. Photographs have been sent to the US embassy in Bangkok with no

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Hillary Jordan received her BA in English and Political Science from Wellesley College and spent fifteen years working as an advertising copywriter before starting to write fiction. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Mudbound, her first novel, won the 2006 Bellwether Prize, founded by Barbara Kingsolver and awarded biennially to an unpublished debut novel that addresses

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John Lescroart's many novels include Damage, Treasure Hunt, The Betrayal, The Suspect, The Hunt Club, The Motive, The Second Chair, The First Law, The Oath, The Hearing, and Nothing But the Truth. He applied the Page 69 Test to his newly released novel The Hunter, and reported the following: I’d say the Page 69 test is very representative of the prose and the tone of The Hunter, and would

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Lucy Burdette is the author of nine mysteries, some of them written as Roberta Isleib. She applied the Page 69 Test to the recently published An Appetite For Murder, the first in the Key West food critic mystery series, and reported the following: As I write the first draft of a mystery, I constantly have to remind myself to up the ante on the trouble the character finds. As I've been taught, I

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John Burdett practiced law for 14 years in London and Hong Kong until he was able to retire to write full time. He has lived in France, Spain, Hong Kong and the U.K. and now commutes between Bangkok and Southwest France. He applied the Page 69 Test to Vulture Peak, the fifth and latest novel in his series featuring Bangkok police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, and reported the following: In

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Alex Gilvarry is a native of Staten Island, New York. He has been a Norman Mailer Fellow and has written for The Paris Review, among other publications. He is the founding editor of the website Tottenville Review, a book review collaborative. Gilvarry applied the Page 69 Test to From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, his debut novel, and reported the following: Even though I know in my

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Margaret Maron grew up on a farm near Raleigh and lived in Brooklyn for many years. Returning to her North Carolina roots prompted Maron to write a series based on her own background, the first of which, Bootlegger's Daughter, was a Washington Post bestseller and swept the major mystery awards for 1993. She applied the Page 69 Test to Three-Day Town, the seventeenth book in the acclaimed Deborah

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Randall Silvis is a novelist, screenwriter, essayist and teacher. He applied the Page 69 Test to his latest novel, The Boy Who Shoots Crows, and reported the following: It is such an interesting notion—and such a useful exercise for writers—to test whether a page chosen at random, any page, in this case page 69, fulfills its purpose, justifies its existence. Does that page illuminate character?

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Leighton Gage lives in a small town in Brazil where he writes police procedurals set in that country. He applied the Page 69 Test to A Vine in the Blood, his new Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigation, and reported the following: Two different newspapers have used the same word to describe my work. The word was “irresistible”. The New York Times used it, last year, to describe Every Bitter

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Molly Shapiro is the author of Eternal City, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown and a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Point, Click, Love, and reported the following: I’m happy to report that page 69 of Point, Click, Love is totally representative of the book. It’s the scene where

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Corban Addison holds degrees in law and engineering from the University of Virginia and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In researching A Walk Across the Sun, his first novel, Addison traveled to India and spent a month with a team of investigators, attorneys and social workers from the International Justice Mission. During his visit, he went undercover into the brothels

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Iranian-American author Elizabeth Eslami was born in Gaffney, South Carolina. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she received her B.A. in 2000. She went on to earn an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She applied the Page 69 Test to Bone Worship, her debut novel, and reported the following:Excerpt from page 69:People began to gather around the snake handler

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Benjamin Buchholz served as a Civil Affairs Officer in Safwan, Iraq, from 2005 to 2006. His nonfiction book Private Soldiers was published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2007. He applied the Page 69 Test to One Hundred and One Nights, his first novel, and reported the following: When I opened to Page 69 of One Hundred and One Nights my first reaction was 'ughh . . . not this page.'

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Patrice Sarath is the author of the fantasy novels Gordath Wood and Red Gold Bridge. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, The Unexpected Miss Bennet, and reported the following:Interesting! Page 69 of The Unexpected Miss Bennet occurs at one of the turning points for Mary Bennet, the protagonist. As readers may remember from Pride & Prejudice, Mary Bennet was the plain sister who read

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True Vision, the first in Joyce Lamb's True trilogy, won a Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in single title romantic suspense from the Kiss of Death chapter of RWA. True Vision was also awarded the HOLT Medallion for Best Book by a Virginia Author from the Virginia Romance Writers. Lamb applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, True Shot, and reported the following: True Shot is my

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Adrian Magson is the author of a 5-book crime series set in London, a YA ghost book, and a writer's help book (Write On!). He is now working on a French crime series set in Picardie in the 1960s and a contemporary spy series featuring former MI5 officer Harry Tate. His latest thriller in the Harry Tate series is Deception (November 2011). Red Station, the first Harry Tate book, has been optioned

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Tony D'Souza's first novel, Whiteman, received the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His second novel, The Konkans, was called a "best novel of the year" by the Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Poets & Writers Magazine. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Mule, and reported the following: Page 69:“I have to know right now.” “I’ll take a

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Renée Thompson writes about wildlife, her love of birds, and the people who inhabit the American West. Her first novel, The Bridge at Valentine, received high praise from Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove. Thompson lives in Northern California with her husband, Steve, and is at work on a collection of short stories. She applied the Page 69 Test to her novel, The

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Gina Robinson's books include Spy Candy, Spy Games, and The Spy Who Left Me. She applied the Page 69 Test to The Spy Who Left Me and reported the following: The Page 69 Test is a fun exercise to run on a book. It certainly makes a writer think about making every page exciting. Page 69 of The Spy Who Left Me is the last page of Chapter Five. Because the page begins in the middle of Tita's block

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Nick Drake's critically acclaimed novel Nefertiti was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award; his Tutankhamun was a Publishers Weekly top 100 books selection. He has published two award-winning collections of poetry, and his play Success was performed at the National Theatre in London, where he is a literary associate. Drake's screenplays include the

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Derek Haas is the author of the bestselling novel The Silver Bear. He also co-wrote the screenplays for 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, and Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie. His forthcoming film, The Double, starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace, is directed by his screenwriting partner Michael Brandt and will be released in 2011. He

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Robert Ellis is a former filmmaker and political media consultant from Los Angeles. His bestselling crime novels include Access to Power, The Dead Room, City of Fire, and The Lost Witness. Ellis applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Murder Season, and reported the following:Murder Season is my personal favorite of the three Lena Gamble novels. It’s a bigger than life Hollywood murder

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David Moody is the author of Hater, Dog Blood, and four-going-on-five books in the Autumn series. He grew up in Birmingham, England, on a diet of horror movies and post-apocalyptic fiction. He started his career working at a bank, but then decided to write the kind of fiction he loved. His first novel, Straight to You, had what Moody calls “microscopic sales,” and so when he wrote Autumn, he

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Ed Kovacs has worked for many years as a private security contractor deploying to challenging locations worldwide. He is a member of AFIO, Association for Intelligence Officers, the International Thriller Writers organization, and the Mystery Writers of America. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Storm Damage, and reported the following: From page 69: After her shift Honey joined

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Larry Karp grew up in Paterson, NJ and New York City. He practiced perinatal medicine (high-risk pregnancy care) and wrote general nonfiction books and articles for 25 years, then, in 1995, he left medical work to begin a second career, writing mystery novels. The backgrounds and settings of Karp's mysteries reflect many of his interests, including musical antiques, medical-ethical issues,

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Reed Farrel Coleman has been called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan. He has published fourteen novels and is the three-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best Detective Novel of the Year and has been twice nominated for the Edgar Award. Coleman has also won the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards. He is an adjunct professor of English at Hofstra University and lives with

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Mignon F. Ballard grew up in a small town in Georgia, and now lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause, and reported the following:What an interesting concept! Usually if a book hasn’t held my interest for the first chapter, I won’t make it to page 69, but of course there are exceptions. Page 69 of Miss Dimple Rallies to

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Tom Lowe's Sean O'Brien mystery/thriller series includes A False Dawn, The 24th Letter, and The Butterfly Forest. He applied the Page 69 Test to The Butterfly Forest and reported the following: Imagine not smelling the scent of a pine tree, a flower, or rain for forty years. Page 69, in The Butterfly Forest, is where Luke Palmer's five senses are all engaged at the same moment, a moment he

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J. Sydney Jones is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, including the first two novels of the Viennese Mystery series, The Empty Mirror and Requiem in Vienna. He lived for many years in Vienna and has written several other books about the city, including the narrative history, Hitler in Vienna: 1907-1913, the popular walking guide, Viennawalks, and the thriller, Time of the Wolf

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Matt Rees is an award-winning crime novelist and foreign correspondent. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed Omar Yussef crime series, including The Collaborator of Bethlehem. He is also the author of Cain’s Field, a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society. Rees lives in Jerusalem. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Mozart's Last Aria, and reported the

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Edgar®-nominee Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, anthologies and several online crime fiction sites.  His novels include four entries in the Hector Lassiter series. He applied the Page 69 Test to El Gavilan, his new standalone novel, and reported the following: My new novel, El Gavilan, tracks a

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As Riley Adams, Elizabeth Spann Craig writes the Memphis Barbeque series for Penguin/Berkley. Under her own name she writes the Southern Quilting mysteries (2012) for Penguin/NAL and the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink. She blogs daily at Mystery Writing is Murder, which was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2010 and 2011. Adams applied the Page

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Brian Ruckley's books include the fantasy trilogy The Godless World, which consists of the books Winterbirth, Bloodheir, and Fall of Thanes. He applied the Page 69 Test to his latest novel, The Edinburgh Dead, and reported the following: I'm a lucky, lucky fellow, because the fabled Page 69 turns out to be a pretty handy little introduction to key aspects of The Edinburgh Dead. Here's the first

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Nancy Jensen, who received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, has published stories and essays in numerous literary journals, including The Louisville Review, Other Voices, and Northwest Review. She was awarded an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and teaches English at Eastern Kentucky

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Gary Corby is a novelist and former systems programmer at Microsoft. He lives in Australia with his wife and two daughters. His debut novel is The Pericles Commission. Corby applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, The Ionia Sanction, and reported the following:  The Ionia Sanction is the story of Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in classical Athens, as he searches for stolen

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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S.

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Stephen Beachy is the author of the novels The Whistling Song and Distortion, as well as the twinned novellas Some Phantom/No Time Flat. His writing has appeared in BOMB, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Review, Best Gay American Fiction, New York magazine and elsewhere. Raised by an ex-Amish father in Iowa, he now lives in California and teaches at the University of San Francisco. He

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Tyler McMahon received his MFA in fiction from Boise State University. His stories have appeared in Threepenny Review, Sycamore Review, and Surfer’s Journal, among others, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He is a professor of fiction at Hawaii Pacific University. McMahon applied the Page 69 Test to How the Mistakes Were Made, his debut novel, and reported the following: My heart

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Ellen Hart, “a top novelist in the cultishly popular gay mystery genre” (Entertainment Weekly), is also a Lambda and Minnesota Book Award winner. She applied the Page 69 Test to The Lost Women of Lost Lake, her 19th mystery featuring Jane Lawless, and reported the following: I’ve heard about this “test,” but never actually performed it on one of my books. Here’s a bit of background to what I

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Alan Lazar is a platinum-selling musician/composer whose career began in his native South Africa. He lives in Los Angeles, where he has composed music for more than 30 films and TV shows. He applied the Page 69 Test to Roam, his first novel, and reported the following: I was rather surprised when I checked to find Page 69 is in fact a major turning point page in my novel. It’s the page when

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Reed Farrel Coleman has been called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan. He has published fourteen novels. Coleman is the three-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best Detective Novel of the Year and has been twice nominated for the Edgar Award. He has also won the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards. He is an adjunct professor of English at Hofstra University and lives with his

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Tricia Fields lives in a log cabin on a small farm with her husband and two daughters. She was born in Hawaii, but has spent most of her life in small town Indiana where her husband is a state trooper. She applied the Page 69 Test to her debut novel The Territory, winner of the 2010 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery, and reported the following: New to the Rule, I’ll admit that I

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Phillip DePoy is the author of a number of mysteries, including the Edgar Award winning play Easy. He has published short fiction, poetry, and criticism in Story, The Southern Poetry Review, Xanadu, and Yankee, among other magazines. As a folklorist, he has worked with Joseph Campbell and John Burrison. Depoy is currently the director of the theatre program at Clayton State University.

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Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer, and motivational trainer. Many of his works--Infinity Beach, Ancient Shores, “Time Travelers Never Die,” Moonfall, “Good Intentions” (cowritten with Stanley Schmidt), “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City,” Chindi, Omega, and Polaris, "Henry James, This One's for You," and Seeker--have been Nebula

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D.E. Meredith read English at Cambridge, then ran the press office and the land mines campaign for the Red Cross, travelling extensively to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Rwanda during the conflicts. She worked as a consultant on media relations for Greenpeace and other worthy causes before embarking on "The Hatton and Roumande Mysteries" series for St Martin's Press (Devoured, October 2010, The Devil's

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A New Yorker by birth, Rebecca Coleman grew up in the close suburbs of Washington, D.C., in an academic family. A year spent in Germany, at the age of eight, would later provide the basis for the protagonist's background in The Kingdom of Childhood. She first learned about the Waldorf School movement at age 14 and quickly developed a fascination with its culture and philosophies. After studying

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Brian Doyle's books include Thirsty for the Joy: Australian and American Voices, Epiphanies and Elegies, The Wet Engine, and the new story collection Bin Laden's Bald Spot & Other Stories. He applied the Page 69 Test to his novel Mink River, and reported the following: I note with a grin, page 69 pretty much catches a lot of what’s happening in the book – some of a bear’s life in the spruce

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David Anthony Durham received the 2009 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer of Science Fiction for Acacia and The Other Lands (the first two volumes of the Acacia trilogy). He applied the Page 69 Test to The Sacred Band, the concluding volume of the trilogy, and reported the following: The Page 69 Test gives me trouble every time. This time may be the most problematic. As per usual my

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Dean Crawford worked as a graphic designer before he left the industry to pursue his lifelong dream of writing full-time. An aviation and motorcycle enthusiast, he lives with his family in Surrey, England. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Covenant, and reported the following: Page 69 ( in the UK paperback version ) is the opening to chapter 10, and follows two supporting

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J.T. Ellison is the international award-winning author of the critically acclaimed Taylor Jackson novels, multiple short stories and has been published in over twenty countries. She applied the Page 69 Test to Where All the Dead Lie, the latest Taylor Jackson book, and reported the following: It really is amazing to see how consistently page 69 is a turning point in so many books. When I

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Doug Magee has been a photojournalist, screenplay writer, children's book author, death penalty activist, film producer and director, war protestor, college football player, amateur musician, and the basis of the Aidan Quinn character in Meryl Streep's Music of the Heart. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Darkness All Around, and reported the following: Page 69 in Darkness All

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Jeri Westerson is the author of three previous books featuring Crispin Guest – Veil of Lies, Serpent in the Thorns, and The Demon's Parchment. She applied the Page 69 Test to the latest book in the series, Troubled Bones, and reported the following: Reading this for myself, it took me a minute to remember what was going on. Not necessarily representative of the book, this is a peek at some of

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Tracy Kiely is a self-proclaimed Anglophile (a fact which distresses certain members of her Irish Catholic family). She grew up reading Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and watching Hitchcock movies. She fell in love with Austen’s wit, Christie’s clever plots, and Hitchcock’s recurrent theme of “the average man caught in extraordinary circumstances.” After spending years of trying to find a proper

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Alma Katsu is the author of The Taker, a gothic tale of desire, obsession and the need within us all for redemption. The Taker has been described as "an epic supernatural love story" and compared to The Historian," Interview with the Vampire, and Twilight even though it doesn't have one vampire in it. Katsu applied the Page 69 Test to The Taker and reported the following: This test intrigued

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Jacques Strauss is a South African freelance digital producer and consultant. He applied the Page 69 Test to The Dubious Salvation of Jack V., his debut novel, and reported the following: I trust you will give me a little leeway on this. For one, I always thought it was the page 99 test, but having Googled the whole thing I notice that both are in common use. Then I thought , hey maybe people do

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D.E. Johnson, a graduate of Central Michigan University, is a history buff who has been writing fiction since childhood. He comes by his interest in automotive history through his grandfather, who was the vice president of Checker Motors. Johnson lives with his family near Kalamazoo, Michigan. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Motor City Shakedown, and reported the following: Page

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Lisa Black spent the five happiest years of her life in a morgue. As a forensic scientist in the Cleveland coroner’s office she analyzed gunshot residue on hands and clothing, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, DNA, blood and many other forms of trace evidence, as well as crime scenes. Now she’s a certified latent print examiner and CSI for the Cape Coral Police Department. Her books have been

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Richard Doetsch is the bestselling author of thrillers, including The Thieves of Heaven, which is currently being developed for film by Twentieth Century Fox, and The 13th Hour, which will be adapted by New Line Cinema. He lives in New York with his family. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Half-Past Dawn, and reported the following: Page 69 of Half-Past Dawn is actually the first

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A native of North Carolina, Mark de Castrique writes mysteries primarily set in the Appalachian mountains. He is an award-winning film and video producer whose work has been broadcast on PBS, HBO, and network-affiliate stations as well as the author of the Sam Blackman mystery series, the Buryin’ Barry series, and two mysteries for young adults. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. He applied

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Jamie Freveletti is a trial attorney, martial artist, and runner. She has crewed for an elite ultra-marathon runner at 50 mile, 100 mile, and twenty-four hour races across the country, and holds a black belt in aikido, a Japanese martial art. Her debut thriller, Running from the Devil, was chosen as a “Notable Book” by the Independent Booksellers of America, awarded "Best First Novel" by the

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Ann Hite has published more than sixty stories in publications such as: Literary House Review Anthology, Espresso Fiction, Skyline Magazine, Plum Biscuit, Moonwort Review, Foliate Oak, and Spillway Review. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Ghost On Black Mountain, and reported the following: Page 69: I’d like to say I woke up on New Year’s Day, looked in the mirror, and understood

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Paul La Farge is the author of the novels The Artist of the Missing and Haussmann, or the Dis­tinction; and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Win­ter. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Harper’s Magazine, Fence, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His nonfiction appears in The Believer, Bookforum, Playboy, and Cabinet. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Luminous Airplanes

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Dominic Smith holds an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly. His awards include the Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast

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Dave Zeltserman was born in Boston and educated at the University of Colorado. A former software engineer, he is the author of nine horror and crime novels including Outsourced and Pariah. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, A Killer's Essence, and reported the following: On page 69, my homicide detective, Stan Green, is questioning the adult daughter of a murder victim, and later

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Jason Webster was born in California and was brought up in England and Germany. After spells in Italy and Egypt, he moved to Spain in 1993, where he was inspired to write a number of highly acclaimed nonfiction titles. He lives near Valencia with his wife, the flamenco dancer, Salud, and their son. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Or the Bull Kills You, and reported the

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Dani Kollin lives in Los Angeles, California and Eytan Kollin lives in Pasadena, California. They are brothers, and The Unincorporated Woman is their third novel. Their first novel, The Unincorporated Man, won the 2009 Prometheus Award for best novel. Dani Kollin applied the Page 69 Test to The Unincorporated Woman and reported the following: Page 69 would land the reader in the middle of a

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Helen Benedict is the author of six novels and five books of nonfiction. Her latest novel, Sand Queen, set in the Iraq War, was published in August 2011 by Soho Press. Culled from real life stories of female soldiers and Iraqis, Sand Queen offers a story of love, courage and struggle from the rare perspective of two young women on opposite sides of a war. Benedict applied the Page 69 Test to

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Simon Toyne has worked in British television for twenty years. As a writer, director, and producer, he has worked on several award-winning shows, one of which won a BAFTA. He lives in England with his wife and family. Toyne applied the Page 69 Test to Sanctus, the first volume of the Ruin trilogy, and reported the following: Page 69 of Sanctus is a rare quiet moment where two of the main

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Leona Wisoker began writing when she was eight years old, with a story about all the vacuum cleaners in the world breaking down. Ever since then, she has successfully used the excuse of needing to write in order to avoid housework. Her first novel, Secrets of the Sands, was published in 2010. She is a regular reviewer for Green Man Review and its spinoff, The Sleeping Hedgehog. Wisoker lives in

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Susan McBride is the author of Little Black Dress and The Cougar Club, selected by Target Stores as a Bookmarked Breakout Title and named a Midwest Connections Pick by the Midwest Booksellers Association. The Cougar Club also made More Magazine’s list of “February Books We’re Buzzing About.” McBride applied the Page 69 Test to Little Black Dress and reported the following: Little Black Dress

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The first book in Kelli Stanley's Miranda Corbie series, City of Dragons, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also named one of the 2010 Top Ten Mystery Thrillers by Oline Cogdill and one of the Top Ten Best Fiction by Bay Area Authors by the San Francisco Chronicle. Stanley applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, City of Secrets, and reported the following: From

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Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Some Girls and has an MFA from Antioch University. She lives in Los Angeles with her son and husband, Weezer bass player, Scott Shriner. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Pretty, and reported the following: Page 69: I clock out with confidence. Stop believing in one thing and you make room for believing in

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Lesley Kagen is the author of Whistling in the Dark, Land of a Hundred Wonders, Tomorrow River and Good Graces. She applied the Page 69 Test to Good Graces and reported the following: In Good Graces, this page gives the reader a good sense of the O'Malley sisters' character: younger sister Troo's acting out, and the big-heartedness of eleven year old narrator, Sally. The page also captures some

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Spencer Quinn lives on Cape Cod with his dog, Audrey. He applied the Page 69 Test to The Dog Who Knew Too Much, the fourth book in the Chet and Bernie Series, and reported the following: On page 69 of The Dog Who Knew Too Much, Bernie Little of the Little Detective Agency is questioning a trail guide named Turk about a camper named Devin who has gone missing on a hike in the back country. Chet

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It's 1913 in Irene Fleming's new novel, The Brink of Fame, and Emily Daggett Weiss is left stranded and destitute. Film tycoon Carl Laemmle comes to her rescue with a job offer directing a film in Hollywood, provided she can track down and bring back Laemmle’s own missing star actor.... Fleming applied the Page 69 Test to The Brink of Fame and reported the following: On page 69 of The

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Susi Wyss's fiction is influenced by her twenty-year career managing women's health programs in Africa, where she lived for more than eight years. She holds a B.A. from Vassar, an M.P.H. from Boston University, and an M.A. in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. She applied the Page 69 Test to The Civilized World, her first book, and reported the following: The stories in The Civilized

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Author of the Joe Kozmarski mysteries – including the PWA/SMP prize-winning and Shamus-award finalist The Last Striptease and the critically acclaimed The Bad Kitty Lounge and A Bad Night’s Sleep – Michael Wiley grew up on the Chicago streets where he sets his books and lives now in northeast Florida. He applied the Page 69 Test to A Bad Night’s Sleep and reported the following: On page

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Laura Lippman was a reporter for twenty years, including twelve years at The (Baltimore) Sun. She began writing novels while working fulltime and published seven books about “accidental PI” Tess Monaghan before leaving daily journalism in 2001. Her work has been awarded the Edgar ®, the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, the Nero Wolfe, Gumshoe and Barry awards. She also has been nominated for

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David Liss is the author of The Whiskey Rebels, The Ethical Assassin, A Spectacle of Corruption, The Coffee Trader, and A Conspiracy of Paper. He is also winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, The Twelfth Enchantment, and reported the following: Page 69 is the 7th best page in the first third of The Twelfth Enchantment. I am almost sure of

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Christine Cody is the author of the new postapocalyptic supernatural Western Bloodlands series. The first book, Bloodlands,  launched July 26 and will be followed by Blood Rules (August 30) and In Blood We Trust (September 27). She applied the Page 69 Test to Bloodlands and reported the following: I would call Bloodlands a paranormal Shane meets Mad Max. At first, we meet Gabriel, a drifter

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David Levien, author of Where the Dead Lay and City of the Sun, has been nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, and Shamus awards, and is also a screenwriter and director (including co-director of Solitary Man (2009) starring Michael Douglas). He lives in Connecticut. He applied the Page 69 Test to 13 Million Dollar Pop, his third Frank Behr novel, and reported the following: Page 69 in my book is

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Linda Urbach is a published author and screenwriter. Her third novel, Madame Bovary’s Daughter, addresses the question: Whatever happened to the only daughter of the scandalous Madame Bovary, literature’s greatest adulteress and worst mother? Urbach applied the Page 69 Test to Madame Bovary's Daughter and reported the following: Just to set the scene, Jean-François Millet, the famous painter

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Meg Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from Stanford University and Stanford law school. She practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Gardiner now lives with her family near London. China Lake, one of her Evan Delaney novels, won the 2009 Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America for

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Brandi Lynn Ryder lives in the heart of Napa Valley. She applied the Page 69 Test to In Malice, Quite Close, her first novel, and reported the following:Pg. 69:“Come in.” Crisp and clean, the words. Very like Tristan. Luke went in. “Ah. Luke. Comment vas-tu?” There was a little more silver in Tristan’s blond hair, or maybe it was only that the tan he’d brought back from Paris accentuated it.

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Chris Ewan’s debut novel, The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam, won the Long Barn Books First Novel Competition and was shortlisted for the CrimeFest Last Laugh Award. It was followed by The Good Thief's Guide to Paris (book 2 in the Charlie Howard series) and The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas (book 3). Ewan applied the Page 69 Test to the latest novel in the series, The Good Thief's Guide to

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Jodi Compton is the author of the acclaimed novels Hailey’s War, The 37th Hour, and Sympathy Between Humans. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot, and reported the following: Thieves Get Rich, Saints Get Shot is an identity-theft novel with a hard gangland edge, meaning it’s not about Internet-based identity theft, but the kind done with stolen ID

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A graduate of Yale, Gerald Elias has been a Boston Symphony violinist, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony since 1988, Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Utah, first violinist of the Abramyan String Quartet, and Music Director of the Vivaldi Candlelight concert series. His novels include Devil's Trill, Danse Macabre, and the newly released Death and the Maiden.

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Kathleen George, author of police thrillers, was an Edgar finalist for best novel for The Odds. A trade edition of The Odds was released last month. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, Hideout, the sequel to The Odds, and reported the following: From page 69: “Let’s start with the window sill in the bathroom. See how it goes.” She came down the stairs a bit more. She was dressed

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Carson Morton was born in London, England and moved with his family to the United States when he was eleven. He worked as a professional musician for many years, making an album for United Artists Records with his group Razmataz, and playing with the likes of John Sebastian, Billy Preston, and many others. He is a screenwriter and published playwright, and has worked in television as a consultant

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Rebecca Wolff is an award-winning poet and founding editor of Fence and Fence Books. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is the author of three books of poems; her work has appeared in The Nation, The Paris Review, and A Public Space. She applied the Page 69 Test to her new novel, The Beginners, and reported the following: Page 69 of The Beginners puts the reader in the

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Born in London, Colin Cotterill has worked as teacher in Israel, Australia, the U.S. and Japan before he started training teachers in Thailand. Cotterill and his wife live in a small fishing village on the Gulf of Siam in Southern Thailand. He’s won the Dilys and a CWA Dagger, and has been a finalist for several other awards. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Killed at the Whim of a

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John Dalton is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His first novel, Heaven Lake, won the Barnes and Noble 2004 Discover Award in fiction and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Heaven Lake was listed as a best

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Kathleen Ann Goonan's first novel, Queen City Jazz (the start of her Nanotech Quartet), was a New York Times Notable book. The Bones of Time, her acclaimed second novel, was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2000. Crescent City Rhapsody (third in the Quartet) was a Nebula nominee, and Light Music, also a Nebula finalist, was described by Booklist as the "brilliant conclusion to a

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Declan Burke is the author of Eightball Boogie (2003) and The Big O (2007). He is the editor of Down These Green Streets: Irish Crime Writing in the 21st Century (Liberties Press, 2011), and hosts a website dedicated to Irish crime fiction called Crime Always Pays. He applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Absolute Zero Cool, and reported the following: Absolute Zero Cool is a blackly comic

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Before trying her hand at fiction, Tammy Kaehler established a career writing marketing materials, feature articles, executive speeches, and technical documentation. A fateful stint in corporate hospitality introduced her to the racing world, which inspired the first Kate Reilly racing mystery. Kaehler works as a technical writer in the Los Angeles area, where she lives with her husband and many

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Melanie Benjamin's first historical novel is Alice I Have Been. She applied the Page 69 Test to The Autobiography Of Mrs. Tom Thumb, her second historical novel, and reported the following:Page 69:“You bet, little lady,” someone shouted, and there was a general stirring and creaking as people took their seats. It was a sound I would grow to recognize, the contented sound of an audience settling

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