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Welcome to the Saturday Spotlight, where each week we will have a chance to showcase something new.  It will be the place to gather, talk and shine the “spotlight” on all things book related.  Not to mention a place to discover new to us authors, characters, series and places. 

 Each week she will pick a new theme for us to share our favorite of, and every once in a while she’ll make it a “readers choice” week where you can spotlight whatever you want.

  Some of the different things we’ll be spotlighting are our favorite book, author, female/male character, location, murder weapon, series, other book blogs, giveaway sites, places to get our books and just about anything else book related.

This week the spotlight is shining on  ......

FAVORITE MALE MYSTERY AUTHOR

My Favorite Mystery Author is

Harlan Coben

Back in February I reviewed his book CAUGHT and proclaimed it would be the best book I read in 2010.  It is May and that is still true.

I have loved every book he has written back to DEAL BREAKER, his first novel in the Myron Bolitar series to the latest LONG LOST.  

His stand alones 

TELL NO ONE, GONE FOR GOOD, 
NO SECOND CHANCE,JUST ONE LOOK, 
THE INNOCENT,PROMISE ME, 
THE WOODS, HOLD TIGHT 
& CAUGHT.

He has yet to write a book I did not love and want to share.

It is funny I first picked up his books it was because I thought my husband would enjoy them, he read DEAL BREAKER and told me, "You have to read this!" and I have been hooked ever since.   His books keep those pages turning, you can't put them down until you have read the final line.

Excerpt from his bio:

Coben was the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write fiction for the NEW YORK TIMES op-ed page. His Father’s Day short story, THE KEY TO MY FATHER, appeared June 15, 2003.

Since his critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series debuted in 1995, Harlan Coben has won the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award and was nominated for the Edgar two other times. Harlan also won the Anthony Award at the World Mystery Conference, was nominated for another Anthony Award, won the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America, was nominated for another Shamus, and was twice nominated for the Dilys Award by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

In the United Kingdom, his novel ONE FALSE MOVE earned him the prestigious “Fresh Talent Award”, given annually by Great Britain's largest bookstore chain, W. H. Smith, and GONE FOR GOOD won the W. H. SMITH “Thumping Good Read” Award. In France, TELL NO ONE (NE LE DIS A PERSONE) won Le Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle for fiction. His novels have been PEOPLE magazine Page-Turners of the Week and a Publishers Weekly Best of the Year pick.

Harlan was born in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from Amherst College a political science major, Harlan worked in the travel industry. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.

To find out more about Harlan Coben check out his web site at http://www.harlancoben.com/.

Now tell me.....who's YOUR favorite mystery MALE author.

DISCLAIMER:

(Stolen from the lovely Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books – thank you!)

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