VJ Books Presents Ridley Pearson!

Ridley Pearson, is a New York Times best-selling author with more than 40 novels published in 22 languages in 70 countries. He has had his novels adapted to both network television and the stage. He has also co-produced and written documentaries for television. Ridley has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Craig Ferguson, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and has been reviewed in major newspapers around the world.

 

Ridley began his career as a singer/songwriter for an acoustic rock band and spent nearly a decade on the road.  Today, he continues his music as a founding member of The Rockbottom Remainders, a '60s rock 'n roll band featuring bestselling authors.

 

Following attendance at Kansas University and Brown University, Ridley’s songwriting led to script writing, and script writing to novels.  His first work, Never Look Back, was published in 1985. In 1991, Ridley was the first American to serve as the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow in Detective Fiction at Wadham College, Oxford University, England. In 2008, he was a visiting professor in the College Of International Language and Literature at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

 

Raised in Riverside, Connecticut, Ridley, his wife, Marcelle, and their two daughters currently divide their time between the Midwest and the Northern Rockies.

 

Risk Agent Signed First Edition

Kingdom Keepers 5 Signed First Edition

Pied Piper Signed First Edition

Parallel Lies Signed First Edition

Killer Summer Signed First Edition

Hard Fall Signed First Edition

To see Ridley Pearson's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.

Ridley Pearson Bibliography

Boldt / Matthews Series

1. Undercurrents (1988)
2. The Angel Maker (1993)
3. No Witnesses (1994)
4. Beyond Recognition (1997)
5. The Pied Piper (1998)
6. The First Victim (1999)
7. Middle of Nowhere (2000)
8. The Art of Deception (2002)
9. The Body of David Hayes (2004)

 
Chris Klick Series (writing as Wendell McCall)

1. Dead Aim (1988)
2. Aim for the Heart (1990)
3. Concerto in Dead Flat (1999)

 
Walt Fleming Series

1. Killer Weekend (2007)
2. Killer View (2008)
3. Killer Summer (2009)
4. In Harm's Way (2010) (Boldt/Matthews crossover)

 
Other Novels

Collections

The Putt at the End of the World (2000) (with Lee K Abbott, Dave Barry, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W Hall, Tami Hoag, Tim O'Brien and Les Standiford)

Anthologies with stories by Ridley Pearson

Diagnosis - Terminal: An Anthology of Medical Terror (1996)

 
Short stories

All Over But the Dying (1996)

Ridley Pearson's Young Adult Bibliography
 
The Kingdom Keepers Series

1. The Kingdom Keepers (2005)
     aka Disney After Dark
2. Kingdom Keepers 2: Disney at Dawn (2008)
3. Kingdom Keepers 3: Disney in Shadow (2010)
4. Kingdom Keepers 4: Power Play (2011)
5. Kingdom Keepers 5: Shell Game (2012)

 
Peter Pan Series (with Dave Barry)

1. Peter and the Starcatchers (2004)
2. Peter and the Shadow Thieves (2006)
3. Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (2007)
4. Peter and the Sword of Mercy (2009)
5. The Bridge to Never Land (2011)
Peter and the Starcatchers Box Set (omnibus) (2008)

Never Land Series (with Dave Barry)

Escape from the Carnivale (2006)
Cave of the Dark Wind (2007)
Blood Tide (2008)

Steel Trapp Series

Steel Trapp: The Challenge (2008)

Steel Trapp: The Academy (2010)

Other

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