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Michael Koryta Biography & Facts
Michael Koryta (pronounced ko-ree-ta) (born September 20, 1982) is an American author of contemporary crime and supernatural fiction. His novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, and have won or been nominated for prizes and awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, the Barry Award, the Quill Award, and the International Thriller Writers Awards. In addition to winning the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, his novel Envy the Night was selected as a Reader's Digest Condensed Book. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, Koryta graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice. In 2008, Koryta was honored with the Outstanding Young Alumni Award by Indiana University. Career Michael Koryta began writing at a very early age. As an eight-year-old boy, he wrote to his favorite writers, and by the age of sixteen he had decided he wanted to become a crime novelist. His novel Tonight I Said Goodbye won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel prize. Many of Koryta's novels have been optioned for potential film or television production. The first to make it to the screen is Taylor Sheridan's adaptation of Those Who Wish Me Dead. Personal life He currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Bloomington, Indiana. Koryta was born and raised in Bloomington, IN. He graduated from Bloomington High School North. Bibliography The Lincoln Perry series Tonight I Said Goodbye (2004) Sorrow's Anthem (2006) A Welcome Grave (2007) The Silent Hour (2009) The Markus Novak series Last Words (2015) Rise the Dark (2016) Other novels Envy the Night (2008) So Cold the River (2010) The Cypress House (2011) The Ridge (2011) The Prophet (2012) Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014) How It Happened (2018) If She Wakes (2019) The Chill (2020) (writing as Scott Carson) Never Far Away (2021) Where They Wait (2021) (writing as Scott Carson) An Honest Man (2023) References External links Fox Acquires Those Who Wish Me Dead Film Rights Michael Koryta's Official Web Site Michael Koryta at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Michael Koryta at the Internet Book List. Discover the Michael Koryta popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Michael Koryta books.
Best Seller Michael Koryta Books of 2024
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A Song of Shadows
John ConnollyStill recovering from his lifethreatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II in this...
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The Pandora Room
Christopher Golden"A wonderful, wild ride." Michael Koryta, New York Times Bestselling author of How It Happened and If She WakesFrom the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Awardwinning auth...
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The Black Angel
John ConnollyTo those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography. The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Lik...
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The White Road
John ConnollyInternationally bestselling author John Connolly takes readers into the dark world of private detective Charlie Parker, whose deadly fight against evil begins when the daughter of ...
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The Reapers
John ConnollyDarkly brilliant and intuitive private detective Charlie Parker returns in the next thrilling installment of the New York Times bestselling series by John Connolly about an elite g...
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Where They Wait
Scott CarsonA “mesmerizing” (Stephen King) supernatural novel about a sinister mindfulness app with fatal consequences from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chill.In this “taut, cr...
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The Whisperers
John Connolly“‘Oh, little one,’ he whispered, as he gently stroked her cheek, the first time he had touched her in fifteen years. ‘What have they done to you? What have they done to us all?’ ”I...
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The Wrath of Angels
John ConnollyIn the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of a plane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been...
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Rise the Dark
Michael KorytaRise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to h...
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The Burning Soul
John ConnollyWhat’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? “There are some truths so terrible that they should not be spoken aloud, so appalling that even to acknowledge them is to risk sacrificing ...
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MatchUp
Lee ChildThis “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twentytwo internation...
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The Wolf in Winter
John ConnollyNew York Times bestselling author John Connolly is a master of the supernatural thriller“a genre of one” (Bookreporter)whose eerie and electrifying Charlie Parker mystery turns a s...
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The Unquiet
John ConnollyHaunted private detective Charlie Parker returns in this “not to be missed” (Bookreporter) thriller by New York Times and internationally bestselling author John Connolly.Daniel Cl...
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A Game of Ghosts
John Connolly“An epic supernatural suspense that will forever reset your standards for summer thrillers. From secret realms and horrific homicides to hauntings and criminal empires, there isn’t...
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The Chill
Scott CarsonA supernatural forceset in motion a century agothreatens to devastate New York City in this spinetingling national bestseller that “grips from the first page” (Stephen King, #1 New...
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Every Dead Thing
John ConnollyTortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on ...
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The Lovers
John ConnollyNew York Times bestselling author John Connolly writes an “unfailingly compelling” (New Orleans TimesPicayune) and lyrical tale that forces Private Investigator Charlie Parker to e...
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The Killing Kind
John ConnollyTroubled excop turned private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest “compulsively readable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author John...
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A Time of Torment
John Connolly#1 internationally bestselling author John Connolly delivers a masterful combination of “the hardboiled with the supernatural” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) with this return ...
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Short Story
Karin Slaughter & Michael KorytaIt was a scam, but then the scam had gone horribly wrong…In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Karin Slaughter and Michael Korytaalong with ...
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Dark Hollow
John ConnollyWhen John Connolly burst upon the literary suspense scene in 1999, he was an immediate international sensation. His Every Dead Thing became an instantaneous bestseller in England, ...
