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Meg Gardiner (born May 15, 1957) is an Edgar Award-winning American crime writer, who lives in Austin, Texas. Her best-known books are the ''Evan Delaney'' novels. In June 2008, she published the first novel in a new series, featuring forensic psychiatrist ''Jo Beckett''. The second Jo Beckett novel, ''The Memory Collector'', was published in June 2009, the third, ''The Liar's Lullaby'', in June 2010, and the most recent Beckett book, ''The Nightmare Thief'', was published in June 2011. More recently she has published three stand-alone novels: ''Ransom River'' (June 2012), ''The Shadow Tracer'' (June 2013), and ''Phantom Instinct'' (June 2014). Her first novel, ''China Lake'', received the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original novel upon its publication in the United States in 2008. Her first Jo Beckett novel, ''The Dirty Secrets Club'', won the 2009 The Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice award for Best Procedural Novel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RT Award Nominees & Winners )〕 Her ninth novel, ''The Nightmare Thief'', won the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense Audiobook of the Year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Audies® - 2012 )〕 ==Biography== Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Santa Barbara, California. She currently lives with her husband, Paul Shreve, in Austin, Texas. Gardiner has said quite simply: "I write thrillers," before recently elaborating: "I used to practice law. I taught writing at the University of California. Of course, there's more — and because the Internet can fact-check you, faster than you can type 'Sarah Palin', I'm going to come clean: It's true that I used to be a mime. But only before mimes became annoying. And yes, I did go in costume to the Star Trek exhibition in Hyde Park. But I did not wear the Ferengi ears. Gardiner is the daughter of English professor Frank C. Gardiner and Sally (née Love) Gardiner. Meg attended Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, a community just north of Santa Barbara, graduating in June 1975. Following graduation, she attended Stanford University, where she attained her Bachelor's degree in Economics and lettered in track. She went on to graduate from Stanford Law School and to practice law in Los Angeles, before returning to Santa Barbara to teach legal research and writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lived in Surrey, near London, until 2013, when she moved to Austin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meg Gardiner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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