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When there's a witness to Dexter Morgan in action, he inspires a copycat killer who threatens his existence in the sixth novel written by Jeff Lindsay, Double Dexter, now in print from Doubleday. The publisher has released this trailer.
EdGross - 10/21/2011

Double Dexter, the sixth novel featuring serial killer Dexter Morgan (who has inspired the Showtime series focusing on the character) will be published on October 18th, but author Jeff Lindsay is concerned that people may be idolizing his creation.
EdGross - 10/17/2011

James Bond returned to the literary world not too long ago in the form of Jeffrey Deaver's 007 novel, Carte Blanche. In this interview with Seattle PI, the author explains some of the updates he's made in the character from the late Ian Fleming's interpretation.
EdGross - 8/3/2011

James Bond has successfully hit the Best Seller's list again with Carte Blanche, and thriller writer Jeffrey Deaver is the one who brought him there with an adventure that reboots the Bond character in the modern era, but nonetheless represents Ian Fleming's vision of 007.
EdGross - 7/11/2011

Just because author Robert Ludlum has passed away doesn't mean that the adventures of Jason Bourne have to come to an end, as evidenced by The Bourne Dominion, the first in a series of new novels written by Eric Van Lustbader.
EdGross - 6/11/2011

What follows is a guide to the novelizations of the screenplays for the four Indiana Jones big screen adventures.
EdGross - 6/10/2011

Between 1991 and 1999, Bantam Books published a number of Indiana Jones prequel novels, and this is the guide to all of them.
EdGross - 6/10/2011

Indiana Jones may have sprung from the minds of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, but this classic American hero has a worldwide audience as well, and what follows is a guide to foreign language Indiana Jones novels.
EdGross - 6/10/2011

The latest adventure of Britain's most famous super-spy, James Bond, is told by American best-selling thriller writer, Jeffery Deaver, and the publication of Carte Blanche arrived in style.
EdGross - 5/30/2011

The tireless William Shatner is at it again, writing yet another book, this one — Shatner Rules: Your Key to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large — hitting bookstores in October, but available for pre-order now from Amazon.
EdGross - 5/10/2011

In this this two-part presentation by Dexter author Jeff Lindsay, he details the origins and genesis of his sympathetic serial killer who has leaped from the best seller lists to the top of the TV ratings.
EdGross - 5/9/2011

Car manufacturer Bentley is offering up a VERY limited edition of the new Jeffrey Deaver James Bond novel, Carte Blanche.
EdGross - 4/30/2011

The Ian Fleming Estate has announced that the late author's novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (already the subject of a 1968 film and stage musical) will be continued in a new series of stories written by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
EdGross - 3/23/2011

Eagerly awaited by millions around the world, the triumphant conclusion to Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance cycle will arrive this fall, it was announced today by Nancy Hinkel, Vice President, Publishing Director of Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers.
EdGross - 3/23/2011

Amazon UK has has offered up a preview of Christopher L. Bennet's next Star Trek novel, Watching the Clock, which focuses on the Department of Temporal Investigations. What follows is the official synopsis of the book, which will be published this June.
EdGross - 2/5/2011

For the time being Vampire Diaries executive producer Kevin Williamson has dropped out his developing companion series to that show about a group of paranormal investigators and is, instead, adapting VD creator L.J. Smith's Secret Circle books into a potential series.
EdGross - 2/3/2011

According to Deadline, ABC Family has picked up the pilot for a TV version of Nine Lives of Chloe King, a trio of Young Adult novels by Celia Thomson whose title will be shorted to Nine Lives.
EdGross - 1/31/2011

Angel of Vengeance is the novel, unpublished at the time, that inspired the vampire TV series Moonlight, which starred, Alex O'Loughlin as vampire P.I. Mick St. John. With the novel being published this week by Titan Books, V&S caught up with author and Moonlight producer Trevor Munson.
EdGross - 1/31/2011

Things are definitely heating up for actor Alex Pettyfer. He'll be seen this year in both Beastly and I Am Number Four, and now it looks like he'll be starring in another film based on a popular YA book series, The Last Apprentice.
EdGross - 1/28/2011

Robert Pattinson shows his serious side in "Water for Elephants" starring alongside Reese Witherspoon and Christopher Waltz in the Depression era circus drama. Take a first look at the film.
EdGross - 1/20/2011