Literally Thrilling Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jeffery Deaver

Jeffery Deaver hails from Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He has written over thirty successful novels to date. The Lincoln Rhyme series are probably the most popular. "The Bone Collector" was turned into a 1999 blockbuster movie starring Denzel Washington as Rhyme.

Answer: Boris Starling

Boris Starling worked as a reporter for the British newspapers "The Sunday Telegraph" and "The Sun". "Messiah", his first offering, was televised by the BBC and starred Ken Stott. "Storm" tells the story of a cross channel ferry disaster, and "Vodka", probably Starling's most ambitious novel, is about a society on the brink of chaos and anarchy.

Answer: Mystic River

"Mystic River" is a gripping tale, told initially when the protagonists are boys, and one is abducted by paedophiles while the other two look on. The action then moves on 25 years, and we learn the ramifications of how that incident has shaped their lives.

Answer: Robert Crais

Robert Crais began his career as a TV screenwriter - his credits include "Miami Vice" and "L.A. Law". "The Monkey's Raincoat" finds Cole and Pike in search of a missing husband and son amidst a backdrop of colorful gangland characters.

Answer: A Time to Kill

Initially rejected by a host of publishers, "A Time to Kill" became a bestseller only after the publication of three other Grisham works. It is loosely based on a true case of a Mississippi rape victim, with the author dwelling on the girl's father and the 'what if' aspects of the case.

Answer: Sweden

Swedish born Henning Mankell is married to the daughter of the noted director Ingmar Bergman. Mankell first exposed his slightly slobbish hero Kurt Wallander in the 1997 bestseller "Faceless Killers". More recently, "The Troubled Man" became the 11th appearance of the lugubrious detective.

Answer: Bad Blood

John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. "Bad Blood", set in rural Minnesota, finds Virgil Flowers investigating the hanging of a murder suspect in a prison cell. That discovery leads to the uncovering of a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy of shocking proportions.

Answer: Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin was born in Fife, Scotland in 1960. He taught literature at the University of Edinburgh after a spell of working as a grape picker in France.
Rankin foisted his troubled, hard-drinking former SAS creation, John Rebus, on the public in "Knots and Crosses" in 1987, and through a series of 17 dour adventures, until finally Rebus retired in "Exit Music".

Answer: Military Police Major

The fictional Reacher, as he likes to introduce himself, is a former United States Army Military Police Major. Saying little, he moves from state to state with a malignant stoicism, displaying coolness under pressure and the uncanny knack of finding trouble. Reacher is a fighter of immense skill and feels little pleasure and even less remorse in killing the enemy to ensure his own personal brand of justice has been served. "The Affair", the 16th Reacher story, is a prequel to "Killing Floor", the first book published in the series.

Answer: John Burdett

John Patrick Burdett is an English born former lawyer who lived in Hong Kong for a number of years. His series of crime novels about detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep are set in and around the Thai capital. They include "Bangkok 8", "Bangkok Tattoo" and "Bangkok Haunts". These works are usually set amidst the highly charged atmosphere of Thailand's notorious sex industry.