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Andrew to Celebrate Otto Penzler’s Twilight Years

July 1, 2012 News

Andrew will be traveling to New York next week for a gala celebration of the birthday of Otto Penzler. Penzler will be turning 137, breaking the age record for aggravating curmudgeons of 136, set by himself. Penzler, who owns and operates the Mysterious Bookshop on Warren Street in Manhattan, is widely considered to be the [...]

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Grove/Atlantic – Mysterious Press to Launch “Killer”

June 18, 2012 News

Mysterious Press, now an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, will launch it’s Winter 2013 publication list this week. The list will include Andrew’s new thriller for adults, A Killer in the Wind. The story follows troubled vice cop Dan Champion who, while taking drugs, has an hallucination of a beautiful stranger  — and then later finds her [...]

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“The Scarred Man” Now Available at MysteriousPress.com

April 23, 2012 Books

I’m delighted to say that The Scarred Man, one of my earliest crime stories — and the first, I think, on which I put my own name (Andrew Klavan writing as Keith Peterson or something like that) is now available in e-book form at MysteriousPress.com. Although, as I recall, I published this book after my [...]

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Animal Hour Comes Round Again

February 27, 2012 Books

Nice news — over in the news section — that my screenplay adaptation of my novel Animal Hour has been optioned for film. I was always fond of the premise of this book. Girl goes to work. No one knows who she is! She gets thrown out of her own office by people she thinks [...]

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Andrew’s “Animal Hour” Optioned for Film

February 27, 2012 News

Andrew’s 1993 thriller novel The Animal Hour has been optioned for film by Double Life Productions. The company has worked in the past with Millennium Films, producer of The Expendables. The option came on the strength of Andrew’s recent screenplay adaptation of the novel. Animal Hour is the story of Nancy Kincaid, who goes to [...]

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New Thriller for Adults Due Next January

January 23, 2012 News

Andrew’s new publisher Grove/Atlantic will bring out his latest thriller for adults one year from now, January 2013. The book, which Andrew completed at the end of last year, will be published under the auspices of Otto Penzler’s Mysterious Press imprint. The imprint has already published novels by Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas H. Cook. [...]

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Scarred Man to get E-book Debut

January 9, 2012 News

One of Andrew’s very first thrillers, The Scarred Man, will soon join his other early works as an e-book offered by MysteriousPress.com. The website is dedicated to publishing the out-of-print work of top-flight crime writers. Andrew’s John Wells series, written under the pen name Keith Peterson, is already on offer there, as well as his thrillers [...]

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Hunting Down Amanda to Get E-life

August 22, 2011 News

Andrew’s high octane chase thriller, Hunting Down Amanda, will join his Keith Peterson novels as an e-book at MysteriousPress.com, a new e-book sales site created by mystery maven Otto Penzler and Open Road Integrated Media.  The 1999 novel tells the story of grieving jazz musician Lonnie Blake who one day helps a mysterious woman, only [...]

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The Return of Keith Peterson

July 26, 2011 News

Andrew’s very first crime novels, written under the pseudonym Keith Peterson, will soon be available in electronic form.  Andrew will join such classic writers as James Ellroy, Colin Dexter and Donald Westlake in offering his out-of-print works for sale at MysteriousPress.com, a new e-book sales site created by mystery maven Otto Penzler and Open Road [...]

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