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Meg Gardiner

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Meg Gardiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen thrillers. Shadowheart, her latest novel, is part of the UNSUB series featuring FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix. The Real Book Spy calls it “A mind-trip of a story.” Booklist says, “As always, the writing is exquisite and the story is perfectly crafted.” UNSUB, the first novel in the series, won the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller. The Dark Corners of the Night was bought by Amazon Studios for development as an hour-long television drama.

Heat 2 is a prequel/sequel to the film Heat, co-authored with the film’s writer/director, Michael Mann. Booklist’s starred review calls it “Riveting… the fully fleshed human stories support and even transcend the often-breathtaking action.”
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Coming up: Santa Barbara Literary Festival

I’m going to be at the inaugural Santa Barbara Literary Festival the first weekend in May, and I am stoked. Hometown! Writing! Workshop! Panel! So many things I love. If you’re in Southern California or the Central Coast, check it out. I’d love to see you.

Santa Barbara Literary Festival
May 2-3, 2026
Santa Barbara, California

My schedule for Sunday, May 3:

Workshop: Beginnings, Middles, and En

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Average rating: 4.0 · 80,834 ratings · 10,079 reviews · 48 distinct worksSimilar authors
UNSUB (UNSUB, #1)

4.05 avg rating — 17,120 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions
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Into the Black Nowhere (UNS...

4.15 avg rating — 9,823 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions
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The Dark Corners of the Nig...

4.16 avg rating — 7,046 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions
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Shadowheart (UNSUB #4)

4.04 avg rating — 3,093 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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The Memory Collector (Jo Be...

3.79 avg rating — 2,454 ratings — published 2009 — 53 editions
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The Shadow Tracer

3.84 avg rating — 2,167 ratings — published 2013 — 30 editions
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China Lake (Evan Delaney, #1)

3.67 avg rating — 2,216 ratings — published 2002 — 40 editions
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Ransom River

3.74 avg rating — 1,935 ratings — published 2012 — 27 editions
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Phantom Instinct

3.58 avg rating — 1,903 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions
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“Was it hard to watch people go?
No. Breathing afterward, every day, was harder.”
Meg Gardiner, The Dirty Secrets Club
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“Running cured almost anything. It eased pain; it exhilarated; it served as penance and validation. It turned lone wolf into a compliment. Running was objective – the stop-watch never lied. Races judged competitors on how long and hard they could run fast, not on a coach’s decision to play favorites with the starting lineup. Running was pure.”
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Which short series (3-6 books) would you like to read for the first part of 2014? (We will have a second short series group read later on in the year!)

Smokey Barrett by Cody McFadyen {4 Books}
 
  7 votes, 25.0%

Sophie Anderson by P.D. Martin {6 Books}
 
  6 votes, 21.4%

Theresa MacLean by Lisa Black {6 Books}
 
  3 votes, 10.7%

Graveyard Queen by Amanda Stevens {4 Books)
 
  3 votes, 10.7%

Dead Series by Mariah Stewart {4 Books}
 
  3 votes, 10.7%

Evan Delaney by Meg Gardiner {5 Books}
 
  2 votes, 7.1%

Kenzie & Gennaro by Dennis Lehane {5 Books}
 
  2 votes, 7.1%

Jo Beckett by Meg Gardiner {4 Books}
 
  1 vote, 3.6%

Anna Curtis by Allison Leotta {4 Books}
 
  1 vote, 3.6%

October Daye by Seanan McGuire {7 Books}
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

An Underwater Investigation by Kathy Brandt {4 Books}
 
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“neatness can be carried too far, so that the work begins to seem fussy and overwrought, anal compulsive, unspontaneous, and remembering that, on the other hand, mess is no adequate alternative.”
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

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