Ivar Leon Menger

Ivar Leon Menger, 1973 in Darmstadt geboren, studierte nach dem Abitur Grafikdesign an der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst in Hildesheim (HAWK Fakultät Gestaltung) und entdeckte dabei seine Liebe zum Film. Nach dem Diplom verdiente sich Menger erst einmal fünf Jahre lang in der internationalen US-Agentur Ted Bates als Werbetexter sein Geld, um nach Feierabend und an den Wochenenden seinen ersten Kurzfilm „Geteiltes Leid“ schreiben und drehen zu können. Der fertige, zwölfminütige Thriller mit Florian Lukas in der Hauptrolle erschien dann nicht nur als Bonusfilm auf DVD („The Cell“, Regie: Tarsem Singh), sondern wurde im Jahr 2002 auch auf der Berlinale zum „Besten Kurzfilm Deutschlands“ ausgezeichnet. Daraufhin kündigte Meng

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Patricia Walter

Patricia Walter, geboren 1974, studierte in München Statistik und arbeitet seit 2000 in der Versicherungsbranche. In ihrer Freizeit betreibt sie neben dem Schreiben Kampfsport, insbesondere Judo und Kung Fu. In Judo hat sie den zweiten Schwarzgurt und ist ehrenamtlich als Trainerin tätig. Sie lebt in München. 2016 erschien ihr Psychothriller Kalte Erinnerung, ein Jahr später folgte Dunkle Vergangenheit. Schwarzer Abgrund ist ihr erster Jugendthriller.
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Katie M. Flynn

Katie M. Flynn is a writer, editor, and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and Tor.com, among other publications. She’s been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her first novel, The Companions, came out in March 2020, and opens during a prolonged quarantine where the living can’t go out, but the dead can come in as companions. Her interlinked collection of short stories, Island Rule, is forthcoming (March 5, 2024) from Scout Press and available for pre-order here: http://tinyurl.com/yc5frbs7.

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Boris Pfeiffer

Geboren am 21. Februar 1964, ist Boris Pfeiffer Autor und arbeitete zuvor als Theaterregisseur.
Nach einigen Jahren als Regieassistent an der Freien Volksbühne, Berlin, dem Hessischen Staatstheater Wiesbaden und am GRIPS Theater, Berlin, begann er Stücke zu schreiben und Regie zu führen.
Es entstanden: „Unter der Hungerleuchte“ (Nationaltheater Mannheim, 1993), „Bosana“ (GRIPS Theater, 1994), „Shak’n Shakespeare“, „Cafe Krematorium“ (Schauspielhaus Zürich, 1999/2001) und „Für die Katz – ein erfundener Tag im Leben des Dichters Robert Walser“, das 2003 am sogar Theater, Zürich uraufgeführt und zu zahlreichen Gastspielen in der Schweiz und Deutschland eingeladen wurde. Das Schweizer Radio DRS produzierte das Stück zudem als Hörspiel.
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Jeremy Ray

Jeremy Ray graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a MFA in Dramatic Writing. He is the recipient of the Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowship for his play Boiling Point and the Shubert Playwriting Fellowship for his play Sisters of Transformation. His work has been performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and his screenplays have placed in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards Competition, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and the ScreenCraft Drama Contest.

However, he is most fond of prose. He spends his free time devouring books like the bookworm he is.

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Simon Beckett

After an MA in English, Simon Beckett spent several years as a property repairer before a stint teaching in Spain. Back in the UK, he played percussion in several bands. He has been a freelance journalist since 1992, writing for The Times, The Independent on Sunday Review, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer and other major British publications. In 2002, as part of an article on the National Forensic Academy, he visited the Body Farm in Tennessee. This last commission was the inspiration behind the internationally bestselling The Chemistry of Death, which was shortlisted for the CWA's Duncan Lawrie Dagger and has been translated into 21 languages. Simon Beckett is married and lives in Sheffield. The author of six novels, his second David Hunt
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Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.

The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.

His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition — though actually as a result of sensitive introspection — everything that I have
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Martha Wells

Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tordotcom, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the British Science Fiction Association Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Lit
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Sebastian Fitzek

Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the traineeship at a private radio station he switched to the competition as head of entertainment and became chief editor later on, thereafter becoming an independent executive consultant and format developer for numerous media companies in Europe. He lives in Berlin and is currently working in the programme management of a major capital radio station.
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Andreas Gruber

Andreas Gruber, geboren 1968 in Wien, studierte an der dortigen Wirtschaftsuniversität und lebt als freier Schriftsteller mit seiner Frau in Grillenberg, Niederösterreich. Er hat bereits mehrere erfolgreiche und preisgekrönte Erzählungen und Romane verfasst. Die aktuelle Reihe um den knallharten, aber brillanten Ermittler Maarten S. Sneijder schockiert und fasziniert seine Fans gleichermaßen. Nach Todesfrist und Todesurteil erschien am 15. August 2016 Todesmärchen , der dritte Band der Reihe. Neben der „Todes-Reihe“ um Maarten S. Sneijder erscheint im Goldmann Verlag unter anderem auch die „Rache-Reihe“ um den asthmakranken Leipziger Ermittler Walter Pulaski.

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Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.
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Andreas Winkelmann

Andreas Winkelmann ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Thrillerautor. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in einem einsamen Haus am Waldrand nahe Bremen. Wenn er nicht gerade in menschliche Abgründe abtaucht, überquert er zu Fuß die Alpen, steigt dort auf die höchsten Berge oder fischt und jagt mit Pfeil und Bogen in der Wildnis Kanadas.

Er schreibt auch unter den Pseudonymen Frank Kodiak und Hendrik Winter.

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Andreas Winkelmann is a German writer and thriller author. He lives with his family in a lonely house on the edge of a forest near Bremen. When he is not diving into human abysses, he crosses the Alps on foot, climbs the highest mountains there or fishes and hunts with bow and arrow in the wilderness of Canada.

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Kōtarō Isaka

Kōtarō Isaka (伊坂幸太郎, Isaka Koutarou) is a Japanese author of mystery fiction.

Isaka was born in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from the law faculty of Tohoku University, he worked as a system engineer. Isaka quit his company job and focused on writing after hearing Kazuyoshi Saito's 1997 song "Kōfuku na Chōshoku Taikutsu na Yūshoku", and the two have collaborated several times. In 2000, Isaka won the Shincho Mystery Club Prize for his debut novel Ōdyubon no Inori, after which he became a full-time writer.
In 2002, Isaka's novel Lush Life gained much critical acclaim, but it was his Naoki Prize-nominated work Jūryoku Piero (2003) that brought him popular success. His following work Ahiru to Kamo no Koin Rokkā won the 2
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Romy Hausmann

Romy Hausmann was born in the former GDR in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son, Romy has been working as a freelancer in TV. DEAR CHILD is her thriller debut, and her second mind-bending thriller SLEEPLESS publishes in 2021. She lives with her family in a remote house in the woods near Stuttgart.
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Linus Geschke

Der 1970 geborene Linus Geschke arbeitet als freier Journalist für führende deutsche Magazine und Tageszeitungen, darunter Spiegel Online, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Manager Magazin. Dazu verfasst er für das Special-Interest-Magazin „unterwasser“ Tauch- und Reisereportagen und bedient alle zwei Monate eine Kolumne („Nachgedanken“). Mit seinen Reportagen hat der Kölner mehrere Journalistenpreise gewonnen.
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Alice McIlroy

Alice McIlroy was born in London. She graduated in English and has a post-graduate in Law. She completed Faber Academy’s novel-writing programme in 2018. Her writing has been longlisted for the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction and Grindstone International Novel Prize. The Glass Woman is her debut novel.
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Romy Hausmann

Romy Hausmann was born in the former GDR in 1981. At the age of twenty-four she became chief editor at a film production company in Munich. Since the birth of her son, Romy has been working as a freelancer in TV. DEAR CHILD is her thriller debut, and her second mind-bending thriller SLEEPLESS publishes in 2021. She lives with her family in a remote house in the woods near Stuttgart.
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Linus Geschke

Der 1970 geborene Linus Geschke arbeitet als freier Journalist für führende deutsche Magazine und Tageszeitungen, darunter Spiegel Online, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Manager Magazin. Dazu verfasst er für das Special-Interest-Magazin „unterwasser“ Tauch- und Reisereportagen und bedient alle zwei Monate eine Kolumne („Nachgedanken“). Mit seinen Reportagen hat der Kölner mehrere Journalistenpreise gewonnen.
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Tibor Rode

Tibor Rode, 1974 geboren, arbeitet als Rechtsanwalt, Autor, Mediator und Lehrbeauftragter in Hamburg. Mit zwölf Jahren wurde er als jüngster Teilnehmer in das vom Bundesbildungsministerium initiierte Programm „Kreatives Schreiben" aufgenommen.

Neben Studium und Beruf war Tibor Rode lange Jahre für verschiedene Medien als Journalist tätig. Tibor Rode lebt mit Familie und Hund in Schleswig-Holstein bei Hamburg.

2013 erschien sein erfolgreiches Roman-Debüt "Das Rad der Ewigkeit". Der Thriller "Das Los" ist sein zweites Buch. Das "Mona Lisa Virus" wurde am 2016 zur Leipziger Buchmesse vorgestellt.

Mit ihm gelang Tibor Rode ein internationaler Bestseller. Im August 2018 legte er dann mit "Das Morpheus Gen" nach.
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Anouk Shutterberg

Anouk Shutterberg a travaillé dans plusieurs galeries parisiennes.

Toujours passionnée par l'art contemporain et collectionneuse à ses heures, elle suit de nombreux artistes confirmés ou en devenir.

Elle a imaginé son premier thriller, "Jeu de peaux" (2021), autour du marché de l'art sur lequel elle avait fait un mémoire de fin d'étude. Ont suivi "Bestial" et "La nuit des fous" en 2023.
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Shane Stevens

Aka J.W. Rider
was an American author of crime novels. He was born in New York, New York to John and Caroline (Royale) Stevens. His novels include Go Down Dead (1966), Way Uptown in Another World (1971), Dead City (1973), Rat Pack (1974), By Reason of Insanity (1979), and The Anvil Chorus (1985). Stephen King has claimed to being a huge fan, and gave tribute to him in his book "The Dark Half", which features violent crime novels starring a character named 'Alexis Machine,' a reference to a character of the same name from the novel "Dead City." Appropriately Stevens was an intensely private person who avoided the limelight during his lifetime and has left many questions unanswered with his death.
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Michelle Sacks

Michelle Sacks is the author of the story collection, Stone Baby, and the novels, You Were Made for This and All The Lost Things.

She was born in South Africa, and holds a master’s degree in literature and film from the University of Cape Town. Her fiction has been shortlisted twice for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and for two South African PEN Literary Awards.

She lives in Berlin.
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