A Welcome Grave was recently nominated for the Shamus Award to be announced in October.
n 2003, Michael Koryta became the youngest winner of the annual St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America 'Best First Private Eye Novel' contest. Michael wrote the winning novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, when he was just 20. It was published when he was 21. Tonight I Said Goodbye went on to earn an Edgar nomination for best first novel and to win the Great Lakes Book Award for Best Mystery. His most recent novel, A Welcome Grave, third in the Lincoln Perry series, has been nominated for a Quill Award, and his work has been translated into many languages.
Michael lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he attended Indiana University, earning a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Previously an award-winning newspaper reporter, he now works for a detective agency in Bloomington and also teaches for the Indiana University School of Journalism.
AVAILABLE AUGUST 5th, 2008
Envy The Night
Standalone novel
It has been seven years since Frank Temple III joined the rest of the world in learning his father's bloody secret: The U.S. marshal maintained a covert career as a contract killer, a double-life that ended in suicide to avoid prosecution and prison. ..read more...
A WELCOME GRAVE
3rd Lincoln Perry novel
-nominated for the Quill Award 2007
in the mystery/suspense category
Once a rising star on the Cleveland police force, Perry ended his career when he left one of the city's prominent attorneys, Alex Jefferson, bleeding in the parking lot of his country club—retribution for his affair with Perry's fiancee...Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a brutal murder... read more...
SORROW'S ANTHEM
2nd Lincoln Perry novel
Lincoln Perry and Ed Gradduk were best friends at one time... until the day when Perry made a decision that brought an abrupt end to the friendship. Now Ed is on the run, hiding from the police who are looking to arrest him for arson and murder, and Lincoln may be too late to save him... read more...
TONIGHT I SAID GOODBYE
1st Lincoln Perry novel
-Winner of St. Martin's Press/PWA Prize for Best First PI Novel
-Edgar finalist
When investigator Wayne Weston is found dead of an apparent suicide in his home in an upscale Cleveland suburb, his wife and five-year-old daughter missing, Lincoln Perry and his partner Joe Pritchard are hired by Weston's father to bring some resolution to the high-profile case... read more...
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