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Marcus Sakey


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Marcus Sakey is the author of The Blade Itself, a thriller Publishers Weekly called "brilliant...a must read." To prepare for the novel he shadowed homicide detectives, learned to pick a deadbolt in sixty seconds, and drank plenty of Jameson. Born in Flint, Michigan, he now lives in Chicago with his wife.
 

Genres: Science Fiction, Mystery
 
Series
Brilliance Trilogy
   1. Brilliance (2013)
   2. A Better World (2014)
   3. Written in Fire (2016)
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Novels
   The Blade Itself (2007)
   At the City's Edge (2008)
     aka Accelerant
   Good People (2008)
     aka Too Good To Be True
   The Amateurs (2009)
     aka No Turning Back
   No Rest for the Dead (2011) (with others)
   The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (2011)
   Afterlife (2017)
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Collections
   Scar Tissue (2010)
   Thriller 2.2 (2016) (with Phillip Margolin and Carla Neggers)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   As Breathing (2010)
   Gravity and Need (2010)
   No One (2010)
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Marcus Sakey recommends
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The Paradox Hotel (2022)
Rob Hart
"Twisty, twisted, relentlessly entertaining, and like all Hart's work, layered with larger ideas . . . You don't read it so much as devour it."
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Interference (2020)
Brad Parks
"Utterly absorbing, relentlessly paced, and cunningly assembled. Brad Parks is the sort of master craftsman who makes everything look easy. I hate him a little bit."
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Unspeakable Things (2020)
Jess Lourey
"A noose of a novel that tightens by inches. The squirming tension comes from every direction—including the ones that are supposed to be safe. I felt complicit as I read, as if at any moment I stopped I would be abandoning Cassie, alone, in the dark, straining to listen and fearing to hear."

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Anthologies containing stories by Marcus Sakey
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Murder and Mayhem in Muskego (2012)
edited by
Jon and Ruth Jordan
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D*CKED (2011)
Dark Fiction Inspired by Dick Cheney
edited by
Jedidiah Ayres, Greg Bardsley and Kieran Shea
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Hint Fiction (2010)
An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
edited by
Robert Swartwood

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Awards
Anthony Awards Best First Novel nominee (2008) : The Blade Itself
Barry Awards Best First Novel nominee (2008) : The Blade Itself
Dilys Awards Best Book nominee (2008) : The Blade Itself
Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2014) : Brilliance
Prometheus Award Best Book nominee (2015) : A Better World


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