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These 6 RPCVs Guessed The Right Writer In This Order Congratulations! A PEACE CORPS PIN IS ON ITS WAY (suitable to wear at formal occasions) Gary Garrison Mark Wentling Matt Losak Tucker Clark Marnie Mueller Karl Luntta

THE PEACE CORPS’ MOST SUCCESSFUL RPCV WRITER PHILIP MARGOLIN LIBERIA 1967-69 NOVELS PUBLISHED Violent Crimes (2016) Woman with a Gun (2015) Worthy Brown’s Daughter (2014) Sleight of Hand (2013) Capitol Murder (2012) Vanishing Acts (2011) Supreme Justice (2010) Fugitive (2009) Executive Privilege (2008) Proof Positive (2006) Lost Lake (2005) Sleeping Beauty (2004) Ties That Bind (2003) The Associate (2002) Wild Justice (2000) The Undertaker’s Widow (1998) The Burning Man (1996) After Dark (1995) Gone, But Not Forgotten (1993) The Last Innocent Man (1981) Heartstone (1978)

Luck played a large part. I only had one writing class, a C + in Creative Writing my sophomore year in college. I started writing a novel in law school because I couldn’t figure out how anyone could fill up 400 pages with words. My first novel was awful but I enjoyed the writing process so writing became a hobby. In my thirties a magazine published a short story I’d written and I got the self-confidence to try a serious novel but I had no idea what to do with it when I finished it because I’d never met anyone in publishing or anyone who had published a novel. I had five chapters and an outline written when a law school friend called from New York to say that he and his wife wanted to visit on vacation. I told them they could stay at my house and I would . . .

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life- and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it. A Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world. Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream: a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life. Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if . . .

“It takes a really crafty storyteller to put people on the edge of their seats and keep them there.” Chicago Tribune “The masterful___plays delicious tricks on his readers.” Perri O’Shaughnessy “_____is the master of the successful suspense mystery.” Pittsburgh Tribune Review “____will have you turning pages furiously.” Otto Penzler “____makes chills race down readers’ spines.” Publishers Weekly “A master of plot and pacing-and one of those rare authors who can create a genuinely surprising ending.” Lisa Scottoline “In the hands of _____, nothing is ever simple and no one is really safe. He is the master of suspense mystery.” Associated Press “_______knows how to pack in the thrills.” Tess Gerritsen “______deliver[s] one of his cleverest cases.” Kirkus Reviews “Like his inspirations, he gives us plenty of gems: shocking situations met with clever wisecracks; sordid personal histories that tumble out in a moment of panic; broken souls who confess their love . . .

To help you pick the ‘winner’ here are a few more facts about this writer. This writer has written 19 novels, 17 of which have been New York Times bestsellers First novel published received the Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for best original paperback mystery novel of 1978 Second novel published was made into a HBO movie Third novel was sold to 25 foreign publishers and made into a mini-series starring Brooke Shields Third novel was also a Main Selection of the Literary Guild Four novel was a Book of the Month Club section Fifth novel was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild and a Reader’s Digest condense book Sixth novel was a Book of the Month Club Section Seventh novel was a Main Selection of the Literary Guild, and selected by the Book of the Month Club Writer was also awarded a Distinguished Writers Award Writer has . . .

Additional Facts about the Writer Served in the first decade of the Peace Corps Peace Corps assignment was as an Administrative Assistant to Director of Foreign Trade, also worked in the National Planning Agency as a transport economist attached to the Harvard Advisory Group Has a law degree Has appeared before the United States Supreme Court Pioneered the use of the battered woman’s syndrome in four murder cases Freed two innocent men sentenced to life in prison for murders they did not commit In college took one Creative Writing class and received a C + The writer had never met anyone in publishing or anyone who had written a novel before publishing one The writer’s next novel will be published by HarperCollins in 2016 The author’s hometown

Forthcoming on August 29, 2015, the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall a new novel by Ellen Urbani. The story is this…. Rosebud Howard almost survives. She charges through the Lower Ninth Ward, beating the wall of floodwater by a half-block. She clambers out of an attic, onto a roof, into a rowboat. But her grueling trek to Tuscaloosa, in search of help for her family, ends when she’s hit and killed by a car laden with supplies for Hurricane Katrina victims. Passenger Rose Aikens, orphaned by the crash, climbs away from the wreck after lacing the dead girl’s sneakers onto her own feet. When she discovers they share not only shoes but a name and a birth year, Rose embarks upon a guilt-assuaging odyssey to retrace Rosebud’s last steps and locate her remaining kin. The stories and destinies of these two teenagers-one black, one white-converge in Landfall, giving voice to . . .