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Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American author of crime and suspense novels, best known for the Lincoln Rhyme series that began with The Bone Collector (1997), later adapted into a 1999 film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He holds a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University, and worked as a journalist and attorney before writing full time. He has served as president of the Mystery Writers of Americ...

The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, to mystery or crime writers every year. It presents the Raven Award to non-writers who contribute to the mystery genre. The category of Best Juvenile Mystery is also part of the Edgar Award, with s...

William Kent Krueger is an American crime novelist, born in Wyoming in 1950 and long settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His Cork O'Connor series follows a former sheriff of mixed Ojibwe and Irish descent through the small towns and reservation country of northern Minnesota. It began with Iron Lake (1998), which won the Anthony and Barry awards for best first novel, and has run to twenty books, most recently Spirit Crossing. Blood Hollow and Mercy Falls each took the Anthony Award for Best Novel....