novelists

Sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane's infant brother Theo disappears one night during a party with hundreds of guests at her family's English estate. Years later, as a successful author, Alice still harbors a suspicion as to how her brother disappeared. Meanwhile, while out walking at her grandfather's house in Cornwall, London detective Sadie Sparrow stumbles upon the old Edevane estate, now abandoned. With her curiosity sparked, a chain of events transpires that brings her and Alice together and reveals the shocking truth behind the mystery that happened so long ago.

"Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: he has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies around the world. He also has a loving wife and three grown children and is a well-known philanthropist in his small New Jersey town. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym "Jack of Spades," he pens another string of novels-- dark potboilers that are violent, lurid, even masochistic. These are novels that the refined, upstanding Andrew Rush wouldn't be caught reading, let alone writing. But when one day his daughter comes across a Jack of Spades novel that he has carelessly left out, she begins to ask questions. Meanwhile, Rush receives a court summons in the mail explaining that a local woman has accused him of plagiarizing her own self-published fiction. Rush's reputation, career, and family life all come under threat--and unbidden, in the back of his mind, the Jack of Spades starts thinking ever more evil thoughts"--Provided by publisher.

Two American couples, one from the East and one from the West, form a fast and lifelong friendship during the mid-thirties of the Depression.

Presents short biographies of nine influential African American novelists, including Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Harriet Adams Wilson, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and Ernest Gaines.

While recovering from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr finds himself trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.

Comic misadventures ensue when seventh-grader Jack tries to write the great American novel.

Profiles authors of popular fiction.

Profiles authors of mystery, horror, and thrillers.

Alan Sheriff, a writer living in a country ruled by a tyrannical dictator is ordered to ghost write an autobiographical novel about the tyrant that will undermine support for sanctions in the West or else he and his family will suffer dire consequences.