Hard Fall (50 page)

Ridley Pearson
is a
New York Times
bestselling author of crime fiction (
Probable Cause, Middle of Nowhere
); suspense/horror (
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
); and children's chapter books (coauthor of
Peter and the Starcatchers
). His forty-plus novels include
Undercurrents, Chain of Evidence
, and
The Body of David Hayes
. In 1991 he became the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in detective fiction at Oxford University. Ridley, his wife, Marcelle, and their two daughters currently divide their time between the Midwest and the Northern Rockies.

www.ridleypearson.com

By Ridley Pearson

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red

(writing as Joyce Reardon)

Peter and the Starcatchers

(co-written with Dave Barry)

Cut and Run

The Body of David Hayes*

The Art of Deception*

Parallel Lies

Middle of Nowhere*

The First Victim*

The Pied Piper*

Beyond Recognition*

Chain of Evidence

No Witnesses*

The Angel Maker*

Hard Fall

Probable Cause

Blood of the Albatross

Undercurrents*

Hidden Charges

Never Look Back

*features Lou Boldt / Daphne Matthews

W
RITING AS
W
ENDELL
M
C
C
ALL

Dead Aim

Aim for the Heart

Concerto in Dead Flat

S
HORT
S
TORIES

“All Over but the Dying” in
Diagnosis Terminal
, edited by F. Paul Wilson

“Close Shave” in
Murder Is My Racquet
, edited by Otto Penzler

C
OLLECTIONS

The Putt at the End of the World
, a serial novel

T
ELEVISION

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
(Movie, ABC TV, May 2003)

Investigative Reports: Inside AA
(A&E Network, June 2000)

Copyright © 1992 Ridley Pearson

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