Faces of the Gone is the only book to have ever won both awards. Prior to publication, Harlan Coben called it a 'terrific debut.' Library Journal gave it a starred review calling it 'the most hilariously funny and deadly serious mystery debut since Janet Evanovich's One for the Money.' The novel went on to win the 2010 Shamus Award for best first novel and the 2010 Nero Award for best American mystery. Martin's Press/ Minotaur Books in 2008 to be published on December 8, 2009. The inspiration for his first published novel, Faces of the Gone, was a 2004 quadruple homicide in Newark that he covered as a journalist. Parks began writing fiction at age 26 in the cafe at a Barnes & Noble as a way to kill time while his wife was studying for her graduate degree. He now lives in Virginia with his wife and two small children. In 2007, Crossroads, his four-part series on the 1967 Newark riots won the New Jersey Press Association's top prize for enterprise reporting.

In 1998, he moved to The Star-Ledger and began working as a sports features writer and, later, a news feature writer. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth in 1996, he interned at The Washington Post, and was eventually hired full-time by the paper, which assigned him to a bureau in Manassas, Virginia. While still a student, he worked as a stringer for The New York Times and as an intern for The Boston Globe. He attended Dartmouth College, founding his own newspaper, The Sports Weekly (now defunct) and singing with the Dodecaphonics, a co-ed a cappella group. He first started writing professionally for his hometown newspaper, The Ridgefield Press, at age 14, covering high school sports. Parks was born in New Jersey but grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he attended Ridgefield High School. Library Journal has called him 'a gifted storyteller (with shades of Mark Twain or maybe Dave Barry).' Background His novels are known for mixing humor with the gritty realism of their urban setting. He writes both standalone domestic suspense novels and a series featuring investigative reporter Carter Ross, who covers crime for a fictional newspaper The Newark Eagle-Examiner, based in Newark, New Jersey. He is the only author to have won all three of those awards. He is the winner of the 20 Shamus Award, the 2010 Nero Award and the 20 Lefty Award. Brad Parks (born July 13, 1974) is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers.

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