Match Work to Author - 2004-2005 Quiz

Answer: Sue Grafton

Sue Grafton (1940 - 2017) was an American author who was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award in 2009. "R" Is for Ricochet" is the 18th book in Grafton's "Kinsey Millhone" series in which Millhone takes a posh assignment to oversee the parole of a rich young woman who suddenly has a former crony sniffing about.

Answer: Patricia Cornwell

Patricia Cornwell (1956-) is an American crime writer who won the French Prix du Roman d'Adventures for "Postmortem" in 1992. "Trace" is the 13th book in Cornwall's "Kay Scarpetta" series in which Scarpetta is faced with investigating the death of a fourteen-year-old girl, working with only the scarcest traces of evidence.

Answer: Stephen King

Stephen King (1947-) is an American author of horror who started his career teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. "The Dark Tower" is the seventh and final book in King's "Dark Tower" series in which he concludes his epic tale about the last gunslinger.

Answer: Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts (1950-) is an American author who was awarded the 1983 Golden Medallion for Best Contemporary Sensual Romance for "The Heart's Victory". "Northern Lights" is set in a remote Alaskan town where a relocated big city cop comes upon a murder case that, along with a new romance, heats things up in the far north.

Answer: David Baldacci

David Baldacci (1960-) is an American novelist and attorney who writes mainly legal thrillers and suspense novels. "Hour Game" is the second book in Baldacci's "Sean King & Michelle Maxwell" series where a killer is copying the most infamous murders of all time.

Answer: Janet Evanovich

Janet Evanovich (1943-) is an American writer who began her career writing romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall. "Metro Girl" is the first book in Evanovich's "Alex Barnaby" series in which Alex goes in search of her brother who has absconded with a 65-foot sailboat and is headed roughly toward Cuban waters.

Answer: James Patterson

James Patterson (1947-) is an American author who was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2019. "London Bridges" is the tenth book in Patterson's "Alex Cross" series in which a supercriminal threatens to destroy major cities and Cross's attempts to avert the threat involve chases on an international scale.

Answer: Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille (1943-) is an American author of suspense and action-adventure novels who often uses Long Island as a setting for his books. "Night Fall" is the third book in DeMille's "John Corey" series in which Corey and his wife, members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force, seek to find important evidence in a TWA jet explosion.

Answer: John Grisham

John Grisham (1955-) is an American novelist and former member of the 7th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives. "The Broker" tells of a powerful Washington, D.C lobbyist who has information about an unknown spy satellite and is set up by the CIA as a target to determine which country may be the one who actually built the satellite.

Answer: James Patterson and Howard Roughan

James Patterson (1947-) is an American author whose 1993 novel "Along Came a Spider" was adapted for a film of the same name in 2001.
Howard Roughan (1966-) is an American writer who has collaborated with James Patterson on four number one bestsellers.
"Honeymoon" is the first book in Patterson and Roughan's "Honeymoon" series in which an FBI agent cultivates a relationship with a mysterious woman whose past spells danger for the men in her life.

Answer: Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Tim LaHaye (1926-2016) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who was opposed to Roman Catholicism and was a believer in the threat of the Illuminati.
Jerry B. Jenkins (1949-) is an American writer who published the "Global Air Troubleshooters" series in 1996.
"The Rising" is the thirteenth novel in the "Left Behind" series and the first prequel, which gives a look into the lives of characters of the "Left Behind" series before the Rapture.

Answer: Mary Higgins Clark

Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020) was an American author of suspense novels who was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great and was honored as a Dame of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a Dame of Malta. In this one, a young woman is implausibly forced into returning to the childhood home she wished to forget forever and where her hidden past surfaces and takes a new and murderous direction.

Answer: Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks (1965-) is an American novelist, philanthropist and screenwriter who donated $900,000 for an all-weather tartan track to New Bern High School. "True Believer" is the first book in Sparks' "Jeremy Marsh & Lexie Darnell" series in which a big city expert on the supernatural is attracted to a small town librarian and has to decide if he can give up his big city lifestyle.

Answer: James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

James Patterson (1947-) is an American author who in 2013, took out ads titled "Who Will Save Our Books? Our Bookstores? Our Libraries?" in The New York Times Book Review and Publishers Weekly.
Maxine Paetro (1946-) is an American author who has collaborated with author James Patterson on the "Women's Murder Club", "Private", and "Confession" series.
"4th of July" is the fourth book in Patterson and Paetro's "Women's Murder Club" series in which a police lieutenant is confronted with both her own trial and an investigation of a possibly related homicide.

Answer: Michael Connelly

Michael Connelly (1956-) is an American author of detective novels who is best known for those about LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and DA Mickey Haller. "The Closers" is the eleventh book in Connelly's "Harry Bosch" series in which the hero takes on the unsolved case of a 16-year-old girl's murder using a DNA match that reveals a hornet's nest of emotion and deceit.