Brad Parks (born July 13, 1974) is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. Parks was born in New Jersey but grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he attended Ridgefield High School. He first started writing professionally for his hometown newspaper, The Ridgefield Press, at age 14, covering high school sports. He attended Dartmouth College, founding his own newspaper, The Sports Weekly (now defunct) and singing with the Dodecaphonics, a co-ed a cappella group. While still a student, he worked as a stringer for The New York Times and as an intern for The Boston Globe. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth in 1996, he interned at The Washington Post, and was eventually hired full-time by the paper, which assigned him to a bureau in Manassas, Virginia. In 1998, he moved to The Star-Ledger and began working as a sports features writer and, later, a news feature writer. In 2007, Crossroads his four-part series on the 1967 Newark riots won the New Jersey Press Association's top prize for enterprise reporting. He now lives in Virginia with his wife and two small children.He is the winner of the 2010 and 2014 Shamus Award, the 2010 Nero Award and the 2013 and 2014 Lefty Award. He is the only author to have won all three of those awards. His protagonist and narrator, investigative reporter Carter Ross, writes about crime for a fictional newspaper The Newark Eagle-Examiner, based in Newark, New Jersey. His novels are known for mixing humor with the gritty realism of their urban setting. Library Journalhas called him "a gifted storyteller (with shades of Mark Twain or maybe Dave Barry).
My Opinion: Here is a writer who combines serious mystery with humor. His books are very readable and I highly recommend him.
Faces of the Gone (2009, ISBN 978-0312672805); x
Eyes of the Innocent (2011, ISBN 978-1250002280) x
The Girl Next Door (2012, ISBN 978-0312667689); x
The Good Cop (2013, ISBN 978-1250005526); x
The Player (2014, ISBN 9781250044082) X
The Fraud (2015, ISBN 9781250064400) X
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