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Brad Parks


USA flag (b.1974)

Brad Parks' debut, Faces of the Gone, won the Nero Award for Best American Mystery and the Shamus Award for Best First Mystery. In doing so, Parks became the first author in the combined 60-year history of the Nero and the Shamus to win both awards for the same book.

Parks is a Dartmouth College graduate who spent a dozen years as a reporter for The Washington Post and The Newark Star-Ledger and is now a full-time novelist. He lives with his wife and two small children in Virginia.
 

Genres: Mystery, Thriller
 
Series
Carter Ross Mystery
   0.5. The Nightgown (2012)
   1. Faces of the Gone (2009)
   2. Eyes of the Innocent (2011)
   3. The Girl Next Door (2012)
   4. The Good Cop (2013)
   5. The Player (2014)
   6. The Fraud (2015)
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Last Act
   0.5. The Whistleblower (2019)
   1. The Last Act (2019)
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Novels
   Say Nothing (2017)
   Closer Than You Know (2018)
   Interference (2020)
   Unthinkable (2021)
   The Boundaries We Cross (2024)
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Awards
Shamus Awards Best First Novel winner (2010) : Faces of the Gone
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (2014) : The Good Cop


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