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Writer Barbara Parker dies at 62

Barbara Parker, 62, a lawyer-turned-author who wrote 12 mystery novels, died Saturday (Mar. 9, 2009)  in Boca Raton, Fla., after a long illness. Her first novel, Suspicion of Innocence, was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best first mystery novel by...

Stuart Woods – An Introduction

Stuart Woods was born in the small southern town of Manchester, Georgia and attended the local public schools, then graduated from the University of Georgia, with a BA in sociology.   In the Fall of 1979 he had contracted to publish a novel, on the basis of two...