Michael J. Byrnes is an American author of
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thrillers
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. He attended
Montclair State University
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, and received a
graduate degree
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in
business administration
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from
Rutgers University
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.
His first novel was ''The Sacred Bones'' (2007), held in 797 libraries and translated into ten languages. Since then he has written two more novels.
Publications
*''The Sacred Bones'' (2007)
**French translation, ''Le secret du dixième tombeau''
**Dutch translation, ''Het volmaakte relikwie''
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**Czech translation, ''Tajemství Chrámové hory : skrývá starověký nález – ostatky Ježíše Krista?''
**Serbian translation ''Svete mošti''
**Russian translation, ''Святая тайна''
**Romanian translation ''"Secretul lui Iosif''
**Polish translation, ''Świete kości''
** Portuguese translation, ''Ossos Sagrados''
**Thai translation, ''ความลับจากโครงกระดูก''
**Chinese translation ''聖血密碼 ''
**Turkish translation ''Kutsal kemikler''
*''The Sacred Blood,'' (2008) (a sequel to ''The Sacred Bones'')
**Czech translation, ''Tajemství svaté krve''
*The Genesis Plague (2010)
**Czech translation, ''Tajemství morové jeskyně''
References
American thriller writers
Living people
American male novelists
21st-century American novelists
Montclair State University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
21st-century American male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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