OUR AUTHORS

The following authors have committed to the first High Tide Murder Cruise. Additional authors to be announced.

 

 
Megan Abbott - www.meganabbott.com

Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, The Song Is You, Queenpin, and Bury Me Deep, which has been nominated for six awards, including the 2010 Edgar Award and the Hammett Prize. Her upcoming novel, The End of Everything, comes out in July 2011.

 
Bill Fitzhugh - www.billfitzhugh.com

Bill Fitzhugh is the award-winning author of eight satirical crime novels. The New York Times wrote, “His facility and wit . . . put him in a league with Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.”

 
Joanne Fluke - www.murdershebaked.com

Joanne Fluke is the New York Times best-selling author of more than 40 novels. Like intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen, she was born and raised in a small town in rural Minnesota. She is currently working on her next Hannah Swensen mystery.

 
John Hart - www.johnhartfiction.com

John Hart is the Dagger and two-time Edgar-winning author of three New York Times bestsellers, The King of Lies, Down River, and The Last Child. His books have been translated into 26 languages and published in over 30 countries.

  Stephen Hunter - www.stephenhunter.net

Stephen Hunter has written 16 thrillers, including the Bob Lee Swagger series. In 2003 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism as film critic for the Washington Post. He has also published two collections of film criticism and a non-fiction work, American Gunfight.

 
Lisa Jackson - www.lisajackson.com

Lisa Jackson is the New York Times best-selling author of more than 75 novels, including Shiver, Fatal Burn, Deep Freeze, and The Morning After. She has over 10 million copies of her books in print.

 
Reg Keeland - www.reg-stieglarssonsenglishtranslator.blogspot.com

Reg Keeland is an American literary translator from Swedish, German, Danish, and Norwegian. He is best known for translating the best-selling Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson.

 
Harley Jane Kozak - www.harleyjanekozak.com

Harley Jane Kozak has written four novels: Dating Dead Men, Dating Is Murder, Dead Ex, and A Date You Can't Refuse. She is currently working on an international thriller. In 2004, she won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for Dating Dead Men. She is also an actor whose screen credits include Parenthood, The Favor, and Arachnophobia.

 
Gayle Lynds - www.gaylelynds.com

Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of nine spy novels and has been called the Queen of Espionage. Lee Child writes she’s “today’s finest espionage writer,” while BookPage claims: “Lynds has joined the deified ranks of spy thriller authors like Robert Ludlum and John le Carre.”

 
Otto Penzler - www.mysteriousbookshop.com
Editor, Owner of the Mysterious Bookshop, NYC

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, one of the oldest mystery specialist book stores in America. In 1977, he won an Edgar Award for the Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection. The Mystery Writers of America gave him the prestigious Ellery Queen Award in 1994 for his exceptional contributions to the publishing field. The Mysterious Bookshop will serve as the official High Tide Bookstore.

 
Gary Phillips - www.gdphillips.com

Gary Phillips has written over 40 mystery novels, comics, and short stories, including the Ivan Monk and Martha Chainey series. His novels Violent Spring and The Perpetrators, and a graphic novel, Shot Callerz, have previously been optioned for film. He's edited several anthologies including the Cocaine Chronicles, Politics Noir and the bestselling Orange Country Noir.

 
Cornelia Read - www.corneliaread.com

Cornelia Read is the acclaimed author of three Madeline Dare novels, A Field of Darkness, The Crazy School, and Invisible Boy. In 2008, she won the Shamus Award for Best Short Story for “Hungry Enough.”

 
Kate White - www.katewhite.com

Kate White is the veteran editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and a critically acclaimed author. Her first novel, If Looks Could Kill, introduced her gutsy and irreverent sleuth, Bailey Weggins. Four more Weggins novels followed, all New York Times bestsellers.

 
Robert Ward - www.robert-ward.com

Robert Ward has worked as a novelist, professor, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His first novel, Shedding Skin, won the National Endowment of the Arts award for first novel of exceptional merit. He has since written seven more novels, including Red Baker, which won the PEN West prize for Best Novel of 1985.