Jordan Dane
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Jordan Dane | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 2003–present |
| Genre | Thriller |
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Jordan Dane (born 1953) is a romantic thriller young adult fiction novelist. She sold her first three-book series in auction to Avon/HarperCollins in June 2006, and another three-book thriller series in May 2007. The first series was released April through June 2008. Titles and release dates for the second series were released beginning in February 2009.[1]
Pursuing publication since 2003, Dane has received awards in 33 writing competitions, including Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008 for Mass-Market for her debut novel, No One Heard Her Scream. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the International Thriller Writers.
Bibliography
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Adult fiction
- No One Heard Her Scream (April 1, 2008) ISBN 978-0-06-125278-5
A detective barred from the investigation into the abduction and murder of her sister is forced to take another case. But when she finds skeletal remains buried in the wall of an old theatre are from a woman close to her sister's age, the hunt for a killer becomes a vendetta for justice.
- No One Left to Tell (May 1, 2008) ISBN 978-0-06-125375-1
A hit man's body serves as a message from the past, unraveling the lives of people touched by an unsolved crime. A woman detective sifts through the tragic memories of a reluctant man whose past holds the key to finding a killer.
- No One Lives Forever (June 1, 2008) ISBN 978-0-06-125376-8
A mysterious woman assassin barges into a man's Chicago flat, attempting to collect an old marker, begging his help to free a man kidnapped in Brazil. He's got seven days to attempt an impossible rescue of the father he never knew.
- Evil Without A Face (Feb 1, 2009) ISBN 978-0-06-147412-5
An illusive web of imposters on the Internet lures a deluded teen from her Alaskan home and launches a chain reaction collision course with an unlikely tangle of heroes who uncover a terrifying global conspiracy. They’re battling a new kind of criminal. And soon their race for answers will become a dangerous struggle for survival.
- The Wrong Side of Dead (Nov 1, 2009) ISBN 978-0-06-147413-2
Enigmatic Seth Harper, computer wizard and friend to bounty hunter Jessica Beckett, is framed for a heinous murder and becomes a sacrificial lamb to a ruthless killer.
- The Echo of Violence (forthcoming, Sept 1, 2010) ISBN 978-0-06-147414-9
Terrorists attack a Haitian missionary school fundraiser to take hostages, forcing Sentinels' agent Alexa Marlowe into an unlikely alliance with a relentless mercenary.
- Reckoning for the Dead (forthcoming, October 1, 2011) ISBN 978-0-06-196969-0
The covert vigilante organization called the Sentinels has a new leader virtually overnight when Garrett Wheeler goes missing, leaving operative Alexa Marlowe to buck the system to find him. And when Jessie's DNA turns up at a grisly crime scene committed when she was only a child, she's forced to deal with a past shrouded in mystery.
Young-adult fiction
- In The Arms of Stone Angels - A Young Adult Novel (April 1, 2011) ISBN 978-0-373-21029-9
A 16-year-old girl is forced to return to a small Oklahoma town where she was the only witness to a murder. She had turned in the killer, an outcast boy of the Euchee tribe, and the first boy she ever loved.
- On a Dark Wing - A Young Adult Novel (forthcoming, January 1, 2012) ISBN 978-0-373-21041-1
When 16-year-old Abbey Chandler cheated Death and lived past her expiration date, her lucky break came at a heartbreaking price—and Death has never forgotten.
Sources
- "No One Heard Her Scream". Internet Voices Radio - Lillian Caldwell. August 1, 2007. Archived from the original on August 9, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-07.
- Bryen, Whitney. "Local author wins acclaim". The Oklahoman. Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- "Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- "Jordan Dane on "Authors on the Air" BlogTalkRadio Feb 26, 2009".
- "Jordan Dane on "Authors on the Air" BlogTalkRadio Nov 5, 2009".
- Holmes, Jeannie. "Romantic Times "Reviewers Choice" Award Finalists Announced". International Thriller Writer's The Big Thrill. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02.
- "National Readers Choice Awards - 2009". Archived from the original on 2011-10-01.
References
- ^ Collinsworth, Alice (February 20, 2007). "No more suspense for local author; National publisher picks up writer's three novels". edmondsun.com. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
External links
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- American romantic fiction writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- Living people
- 1953 births
- American thriller writers
- American writers of young adult literature
- American women novelists
- Women romantic fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- Women mystery writers
- Women writers of young adult literature
- Women thriller writers