Bestselling Crime Writers Answer Your Questions!

Check out our first interview! Armed with your questions, Gather member and First Chapters winner Geoffrey Edwards interviewed David Baldacci (Bestselling Author David Baldacci Answers Gather Member Questions). 

The following authors will be on Gather thanks to Court TV so stay tuned and get your questions ready!    

David Baldacci (Episode airs Monday, November 12^th)

On the morning of July 7, 1997, the day-shift manager of a Georgetown Starbucks Coffee Shop arrives and finds the bodies of employees Emory Evans, Aaron Goodrich and Caity Mahoney who had worked the night before. All three have been shot to death. Metro Detective James Trainum and FBI Special Agent Bradley Garrett team up and spend nearly two years tracking down one of D.C.’s most notorious and elusive career criminals: Carl Derek Cooper. 

Lisa Gardner (Episode airs Monday, November 19^th)

25-year-old Portland, ME resident Amy St. Laurent disappears.  What follows is a vast, multi-jurisdictional effort, with unprecedented collaboration between law enforcement agencies.  Over the course of their tireless efforts, investigators are led through multiple suspects, conflicting stories and cover-ups, and eventually, to a dangerous sexual predator who’s been hiding in plain sight. 

Lisa Scottoline (Episode Airs Monday, December 3^rd)

When Karyn Hearn Slover’s car is found abandoned near her Decatur, Illinois workplace, nobody expects the tragedy that is to follow.  When her dismembered corpse is found in a nearby Lake, investigators must find a motive for murder.  In a case with few leads, it is the hard work of forensic scientists from across the continent that catches the killers.  That forensic evidence leads back to the family of Karyn’s ex-husband – vengeful, domineering grandparents who will stop at nothing to keep Karyn’s son for their own.  

Linda Fairstein (Episode airs Monday, December 10^th)

Here is a story that tells you why DNA evidence is the greatest advance in crime and punishment since the invention of the jury.  Three East Harlem teenage girl’s murder-rapes defy experienced NYPD detectives.  The killer moves their bodies from the crime scenes to dump sites in a shopping-cart.  After many years, a comparison of DNA taken from serial rapist, Arohn Kee is matched against semen found in all three victims.  DNA technology also matches Kee’s semen in another rape where an innocent man was charged.    

Harlan Coben(Episode Airs Monday, December 17^th)

Mark Winger, a husband and father, catches a man in the act of bludgeoning his wife to death. Winger shoots and kills the man, and the ensuing investigation reveals the intruder was a psychotic cab driver, against whom the wife had filed a complaint after a harrowing drive with him a few days earlier.  Police find that Winger had acted justifiably in the shooting.  A few years later, Mark Winger files a civil suit against the cab company.  Amazingly, this suit propels an aggressive and comprehensive investigation which results in his own arrest for the double murder.  

Jonathan Kellerman (Episode airs Monday, January 10^th)

When 27-Year-Old Jarrod Davidson came to his door on July 9th, 2004, he saw what appeared to be a thoughtful gift from one of his students.  Little did he know it was all a lure for his murder.  When this single father and hardworking grad student is killed on his own doorstep, it sends shockwaves through the community.  Santa Barbara authorities initially struggle to find a motive – Jarrod didn’t seem to have any enemies.  But thanks to some incredible forensic study, and a lot of good old-fashioned detective work, they finally find the shocking connection.  Somebody else wanted Jarrod’s three-year-old daughter all to themselves. 

Lee Child (Episode airs Monday, January 28^th)

When 44-year-old husband and father Jeff Zack is gunned down at a gas station by a mysterious masked man on a motorcycle, police are initially baffled.  But this seemingly perfect family man has a secret to hide.  Police soon uncover a troubled love triangle, a custody battle over an illegitimate child, and a possible murder-for-hire plot involving one of Akron’s most powerful families.