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Michael Koryta (pronounced Ko-ree-ta) is a New York Times-bestselling author whose work has been lauded by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Lisa Unger, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, and David Baldacci, among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, and many others.

Michael worked as a private investigator and newspaper reporter. His first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was accepted for publication when he was 20 years old.

Michael has written for the screen in both feature film and television. Those Who Wish Me Dead was released in 2021, starring Angelina Jo
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Average rating: 3.85 · 102,695 ratings · 12,868 reviews · 54 distinct worksSimilar authors
Those Who Wish Me Dead

4.01 avg rating — 15,894 ratings — published 2014 — 41 editions
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So Cold the River

3.57 avg rating — 8,300 ratings — published 2010 — 55 editions
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If She Wakes

3.85 avg rating — 7,098 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions
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How It Happened

3.83 avg rating — 7,138 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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The Prophet

3.79 avg rating — 6,762 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
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An Honest Man

4.10 avg rating — 5,406 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions
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Last Words (Mark Novak, #1)

3.62 avg rating — 5,513 ratings — published 2015 — 26 editions
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The Cypress House

3.79 avg rating — 4,901 ratings — published 2011 — 36 editions
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The Ridge

3.84 avg rating — 4,723 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions
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Michael’s Tribute to Daniel Woodrell

I feel as if lately I���m honing a craft never desired: the tribute piece.

In July, I wrote a farewell to my best friend ��� that may seem an odd term to apply to an 88-year-old man, but it���s the right one. His name was Bob Hammel, and he was a sportswriter by trade and a mentor by whatever bad luck delivered me to his door. He loved words. I���m thinking of that now, because I just heard from th

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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
Ray Bradbury
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“...what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?”
Michael Koryta, So Cold the River

“You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where’s the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world, did you do anything to help?”
Michael Koryta, The Ridge

“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.”
Michael Koryta, Envy the Night

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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
Ray Bradbury

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