Thomas perry biography

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Thomas Perry

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Thomas Perry was born in 1947 in Tonawanda, New York, received a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in English at the University of Rochester. He has worked as a laborer, commercial fisherman, university administrator and teacher, and a writer-producer of prime time network television series. He is the author of fourteen novels. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two daughters.

Series

Fargo Adventure

Books:

Pro Bono, January 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Hero, January 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
The Left-Handed Twin, November 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Mayan Secrets, September 2013
Fargo Adventure #5
Hardcover / e-Book
Nightlife, March 2006
Hardcover
Dead Aim, February 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Pursuit, February 2006
Trade Size (reprint)
Metzger's Dog: A Novel, June 2003
Paperback
The Butcher's Boy, June 2003
Trade Size (reprint)
Metzger's Dog, June 2003
Trade Size
Blood Money, April 2002
Jane Whitefield Series #5
Paperback (reprint)
Death Benefits, November 2001
Paperback (reprint)
The FaceChangers, March 1999
Jane Whitefield Series #4
Pap

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About the Author

Thomas Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York, in 1947. He graduated from Cornell University in 1969 and earned a Ph. D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1974. Perry's novels, successful both critically and with the public, are suspenseful as well as comic. Butcher's Boy show more received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel in 1983, and another one of his novels has been adapted in the movie, The Guide (1999). His other novels include: Death Benefits, Nightlife, Fidelity, and Strip. (Bowker Author Biography) Won an Edgar for The Butcher's Boy, and Metzger's Dog was a New Yor Times Notable book of the Year. Vanishing Act was chosen as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Perry's other works include: Death Benefits, The Face Changers, Shadow Woman, Dance for the Dead, and Blood Money. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two daughters. (Publisher Provided)show less

Series

Works by Thomas Perry

Silence(2007)422 copies, 9 reviews

Runner(2009)421 copies, 16 reviews

Nightlife(2006) — Author — 408 copies, 7 reviews

Pursuit(2001)311 copies, 3 reviews

Strip(2010)297 copies, 16 reviews

Island(1988)101 copies,

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Thomas Perry (author)

American novelist

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Writings

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Perry refine a non-series list get through mysteries familiarize yourself Death Benefits, Pursuit (which won a Gumshoe Bestow in 2002), Dead Aim, Night Life, Fidelity, and Strip. The Newborn York Times selected Night Life supporter its outperform seller multiplicity. In The Informant, on the loose in 2011, Perry brought back representation hit-man room first introduced in The Butcher's Boy and afterwards the principal in Sleeping Dogs.

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