Summary
BRAD PARKS, former reporter for The (Newark) Star-Ledger, current author of mystery novels, sat at a signing table between the Self Improvement and Cooking sections of the Barnes & Noble bookstore on Greenbrier Parkway, Chesapeake.
It was a Sunday afternoon. Flanking the writer were stacks of "Eyes of the Innocent" (Minotaur Books, 294 pp., $24.99), his second thriller just out in hardcover, and "Faces of the Gone" (Minotaur, 330 pp., $14.99), his first, just reprinted in paperback. Last year "Faces" won the Nero Award for Best American Mystery from The Nero Wolfe Society, a national organization of Rex Stout fans, and the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America.See the full content of this document
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His Hero Fights Crime Armed with a Ballpoint the Big Leap Brad Parks Went From Newsman to Mystery Writer, a Little Ahead of Schedule
Both are crackerjack books.
Before Parks, arranged in three rows, were 10 chairs. Expectations for crowds tend to be lo...See the full content of this document
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