Gerald M. Ford (born 1945) is an American crime and thriller writer, writing as G.M. Ford. He worked as a teacher of creative writing, before becoming an author. His first book, Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? was published in 1995. As well as being Ford's debut novel, this book was also the first in a series of six books based on the character Leo Waterman, a detective working in Seattle, Washington.

In 2001, Ford introduced the character Frank Corso in the novel 'Fury'. This novel showed a different approach in Ford's writing style. The Corso novel has much faster pace and a darker feel than the Waterman series. Ford wrote five more Corso novels before writing his first standalone novel 'Nameless Night'('Identity'in the UK) in 2008.

Some of his books are held in over a thousand US and other libraries, according to WorldCat, and translated into 4 languages.  (Source: Wikipedia)

Meg Gardiner (born 15 May 1957, in Oklahoma) is an award-winning American crime writer, who currently lives in the UK. Her best-known books are the Evan Delaney novels. In June 2008, she published the first novel in a new series, featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. The second Jo Beckett escapade, The Memory Collector, was published in June 2009, the third, The Liar's Lullaby, in June 2010, and her latest Becket book, The Nightmare Thief, was published in June 2011.

Gardiner's first novel, China Lake, received the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original novel upon its publication in the US in 2008. Her first Jo Beckett novel, The Dirty Secrets Club, won the 2009 The Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel. (Source: Wikipedia)

"The finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years.” ~Stephen King

Kyle Mills (born 1966) is an American writer of thriller novels including Rising Phoenix, Fade, and The Second Horseman. Several of his books (Rising Phoenix, Storming Heaven, Sphere of Influence, Free Fall and Darkness Falls) include a character Mark Beamon, an FBI special agent.

From PublishersMarketplace.com, his next Novel Lords of Corruption will be published in March 2009.

Mills lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with his wife and they are both avid rock climbers. Mills grew up in Oregon, and his father was an agent with the FBI.(Source: Wikipedia)