Chris Grabenstein
Grabenstein, Chris
NY
Eric Myers
Hector DeJean
Goldberg McDuffie, Breakthrough Promotions
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Award-winning mystery writer Chris Grabenstein has kept readers on the edge of their seats with his popular, Jersey Shore mystery series featuring a crime-solving duo fans have come to love.
John Ceepak is a hard-edged cop and former military police officer whose current job is to keep the summer tourist town of Sea Haven, New Jersey safe. Danny Boyle is Ceepak’s wise-cracking, young partner, who remains in awe of his mentor’s strict code of honor and sharp sleuthing skills. Together, the pair solved the murder of a real estate tycoon in Tilt-A-Whirl (2005), outwitted a mad-man’s twisted scheme for revenge in Mad Mouse (2006), and tracked down a serial killer in Whack-A-Mole (2007).
Now Grabenstein delivers his impressive fourth installment, HELL HOLE: A John Ceepak Mystery (Publication date: July 22, 2008; $24.95 hardcover), the most haunting novel in the series and the first published by St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur.
Chris Grabenstein is an award-winning mystery writer and children’s book author, and a former advertising executive and improvisational comedian.
He performed in the same Greenwich Village comedy troupe as Bruce Willis back in the early 1980s.
Chris spent almost twenty years writing commercials for America’s top advertising agencies, representing clients such as Seven Up, Miller Lite, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dr. Pepper, and many others. He was, perhaps most famously, the copy writer who created Trojan Man, a radio campaign that still rides the airwaves today.
He went on to become an Executive Vice President/Group Creative Director at Young & Rubicam in New York.
Chris’s writing talent was first discovered by international bestselling author James Patterson, his Creative Director at J. Walter Thompson Advertising. Patterson had come up with a Writing Aptitude Test, which ran as a full-page as in the New York Times under the headline “Write If You Want Work.” Over 2,000 applicants responded. Chris was the first writer hired.
Chris has written screenplays, made-for-TV movies, Muppet scripts, and the occasional grocery list. In fact, he’s been writing since he moved to New York from Chattanooga, Tennessee—bringing along seven suitcases and the Smith-Corona typewriter he got as a high school graduation gift.
He won the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery (given at Boucheron 2006) for his debut novel, Tilt-A-Whirl—the first in a series of John Ceepak stories set down at the shore in a fictional New Jersey town called Sea Haven. The second novel in the series, Mad Mouse, was called one of the Ten Best Mysteries of 2006 by Kirkus. Whack-A-Mole was published to great acclaim in 2007.
The fourth Ceepak novel, HELL HOLE (it’s a ride like the Gravitron), will be the first to be published by St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur on July 22, 2008.
Chris’s fast-paced Christopher Miller holiday thrillers include Slay Ride and Hell for the Holidays.
On May 27, 2008, Random House will publish The Crossroads, the first installment in Chris’s ghost series for middle school children.
Chris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. He lives in Manhattan with his beautiful, beloved wife J.J., along with their dog Fred and three cats, Jeanette, Parker and Tiger Lilly.
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HELL HOLE Author: Chris Grabenstein Published: August 1, 2008 by St. Martin's Minotaur Series Name: The John Ceepak/Jersey Shore Mysteries Category: Police Procedural Main Character: John Ceepak, Danny Boyle Former MP John Ceepak is confronted with his most personal case yet when he must investigate the alleged suicide of an Army corporal who recently returned from Iraq. When it turns out that this “locked stall” rest stop suicide is anything but an open-and-shut case, Ceepak and his partner, the young wisecracker Danny Boyle, realize that the corporal might have been privy to information that opens up a much larger conspiracy that strikes at the heart of our involvement in the Middle east and puts them on the wrong side of some very unpleasant people…. Click for more info. |
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THE CROSSROADS Author: Chris Grabenstein Published: May 27, 2008 by Random House Children's Books Series Name: Zack & Judy Ghost Stories Category: Ghost Story/Mystery for Middle Grade readers Main Character: Zack Jennings and Judy Magruder From the starred review in Booklist: If Grabenstein's first YA book were to receive a one-word review, the word would be Coooool, a term that applies in a variety of ways—from the book's cover image (a face peering out of the bark of a tree) and its hitchhiking, hot-rodding ghosts to its creepy atmosphere, believable story, and suspense that engulfs readers from the very first page. Even the characters are cool, including contemporary, doo-wop, and even Dickensian. Grabenstein, who has won the Anthony Award for his adult mysteries and whose Click for more info. |
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HELL FOR THE HOLIDAYS Author: Chris Grabenstein Published: December 15, 2007 by Carroll & Graf Series Name: The Christopher Miller Holiday Thrillers Category: Thriller, Holiday Main Character: Christopher Miller What if America's most lethal terrorist threat came from a jihad of American extremists? In the explosive sequel to Slay Ride, FBI legend Christopher Miller returns for a page-turning countdown to a Thanksgiving Day attack in New York City. Click for more info. |
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