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Michael Koryta (pronounced Ko-ree-ta) is a New York Times-bestselling author whose work has been lauded by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Lisa Unger, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and David Baldacci, among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, and many others.

Michael worked as a private investigator and newspaper reporter. His first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was accepted for publication when he was 20 years old.

Michael has written for the screen in both feature film and television. Those Who Wish Me Dead was released in 2021, starring Angelina Jo
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Average rating: 3.85 · 106,452 ratings · 13,321 reviews · 49 distinct worksSimilar authors
Those Who Wish Me Dead

4.01 avg rating — 16,225 ratings — published 2014 — 42 editions
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So Cold the River

3.57 avg rating — 8,453 ratings55 editions
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How It Happened

3.83 avg rating — 7,360 ratings — published 2018 — 20 editions
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If She Wakes

3.85 avg rating — 7,266 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions
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The Prophet

3.79 avg rating — 6,838 ratings — published 2012 — 39 editions
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An Honest Man

4.10 avg rating — 5,586 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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Last Words (Mark Novak, #1)

3.62 avg rating — 5,617 ratings — published 2015 — 20 editions
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The Cypress House

3.79 avg rating — 4,967 ratings — published 2011 — 36 editions
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The Ridge

3.84 avg rating — 4,805 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions
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3.85 avg rating — 4,589 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions
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Library Journal Starred Review of Die Famous


Savannah Cody truly loves Eddie ���Nickel��� Terhune, but there are days when she could easily kill him���like when she hears that a reward is out for Eddie and the other members of Al Brady���s gang after their most recent bank robbery. Considering all the grief she has endured as Eddie���s romantic partner (if not his legal wife) and the mother of their young son Alford, Savannah figures i

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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
Ray Bradbury
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“...what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?”
Michael Koryta, So Cold the River

“You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where’s the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world, did you do anything to help?”
Michael Koryta, The Ridge

“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.”
Michael Koryta, Envy the Night

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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
Ray Bradbury

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