First Thrills: Volume 2: Short Stories

Miranda Corbie Mystery #short story prequel 1

by Lee Child (Editor), Heather Graham, Wendy Corsi Staub

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a cross section of today's hottest thriller-writing talent. This original collection is now split into four e-book volumes, packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem!First Volume 2 contains stories six original stories CoontsHeather GrahamWendy Corsi StaubKelli StanleyGrant McKenzieKen BruenAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Genres: Anthologies, Thriller, Mystery, Short Stories

75 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 7, 2011

About the author

Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012.

Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born.

Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.

Reviews

[~JenRen~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intriguing stories!

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was OK, many stories.

TPL e-book.

[Rosemary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some familiar authors but some delightful new ones! Nice!

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories were very average on the whole. Definitely not as good as the first volume.