Michael Prescott (born 1960, as Douglas Child Borton, Jr. ) is a contemporary American, ''New York Times'' bestselling writer of

crime fiction Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...

Early life

Douglas Child Borton, Jr. was born to Doris Ann (née Kleen) Borton and Douglas Child Borton, Sr., and grew up in

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York (state), New York; on the ea ...

. He graduated from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and with the support of prominent residents of Middletown, the c ...

in 1980, where he majored in

Film Studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies ...

Career

Prescott moved to Los Angeles in 1981, and there he worked as a freelance magazine article writer, archival researcher, editor, and wrote scripts for independent film producers. In 1986, he sold his first novel, which was in the horror genre. In 1992, under the pseudonym Brian Harper, he switched to crime and suspense novels, most of which are set in Los Angeles or in Arizona. He has contributed short stories to several anthologies.

Bibliography

Written as Douglas Borton

# ''Kane'' (1990)

Written as Brian Harper

# ''Shiver'' (1992) # ''Shudder'' (1994) # ''Shatter'' (1995) # ''Deadly Pursuit'' (1995) # ''Blind Pursuit'' (1997) # ''Mortal Pursuit'' (1998)

Written as Michael Prescott

# ''Comes the Dark'' (1999) # ''Stealing Faces'' (1999) # ''The Shadow Hunter'' (2000)
''(German version: Die Stalkerjägerin, Translator: Olaf Knechten, 2014)'' # ''Last Breath'' (2002) # ''Next Victim'' (2002) # ''In Dark Places'' (2004) # ''Dangerous Games'' (2005) # ''Mortal Faults'' (2006) # ''Final Sins'' (2007) # ''Riptide'' (2010) # ''Grave of Angels'' (2012)

Written as Owen Fusterbuster

# ''Die Stupid'' (2011)

References

External links

Official websiteOfficial blog
1960 births Living people People from Los Angeles 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American crime fiction writers American horror writers American male novelists Wesleyan University alumni 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from California {{US-fiction-writer-stub