Jamie Freveletti

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Jamie Freveletti
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NationalityAmerican
Period2009–present
Genre Thriller
Website
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Jamie Freveletti is an American writer of thriller novels. Her first novel, Running from the Devil, was published in 2009 and won the 2010 Barry Award for best thriller and the 2010 International Thriller Writers Awards best first novel. In 2011 Freveletti was selected by the Robert Ludlum estate to write a novel in the Covert-One series. Freveletti has currently published four novels and a novella in her Emma Caldridge series and two novels in the Covert-One series.

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Biography

Freveletti grew up in Addison, Illinois. [1] After attending law school she moved to Geneva, Switzerland to study for a diploma in International Studies. [2] Following her studies Freveletti started practicing as a trial attorney. [3] Freveletti also holds a black belt in aikido and competes in ultramarathons. [4] Freveletti's first thriller novel, Running from the Devil, was published in 2009 and featured the character Emma Caldridge. [3] [5] Running from the Devil won the 2010 Barry Award for best thriller and was named the best first novel at the 2010 International Thriller Writers Awards. [3] The second novel in the Emma Caldridge series was released the following year and the third, The Ninth Day was released in 2011. [5] In August 2011 it was announced that Freveletti had been selected by the Robert Ludlum Estate to write the next novel in the Covert-One series. [1] [4] It was released in 2012 entitled The Janus Reprisal. [3] During 2012 Freveletti also published the fourth novel in the Emma Caldridge series and released the first of three parts in an Emma Caldridge novella. [5] [6] The following year her publisher released parts two and three of the novella which were entitled Gone and Run. [7] [8] In 2015 Freveletti's second novel in the Covert-One series, The Geneva Strategy, was released. [5] Freveletti currently lives in Chicago with her family. [3]

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

TitleYearSeriesFirst edition publisherNotesRef
Running from the Devil2009Emma Caldridge William Morrow Won 2010 Barry Award for best thriller
Won 2010 International Thriller Writers Awards best first novel
Nominated for 2010 Macavity Awards best first novel		 [3] [5] [9] [10]
Running Dark2010Emma Caldridge William Morrow [5] [11]
The Ninth Day2011Emma Caldridge Harper [5] [12]
The Janus Reprisal2012 Covert-One Grand Central Publishing Written under the Robert Ludlum brand [5] [13]
Dead Asleep2012Emma Caldridge Harper [5] [14]
Risk2012Emma Caldridge William Morrow First part of the novella [5] [15]
Gone2013Emma Caldridge William Morrow Second part of the novella [5] [16]
Run2013Emma Caldridge William Morrow Third part of the novella [5] [8]
The Geneva Strategy2015 Covert-One Grand Central Publishing Written under the Robert Ludlum brand [5] [17]
Blood Run2017Emma Caldridge Calexia Press [5]

Short stories

TitleYearNotesRef
"The Last Bad Morning: Exoneration"2017Written with Antione Day and first published in the anthology Anatomy of Innocence (edited by Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger) [18]
"The Ghost of the Lake"2018First published in the anthology For the Sake of the Game (edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger) [19] [20]
"The Disappearing Place"2023First published in the anthology Infinity (edited by Catherine Coulter) [21] [22]

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  16. ↑ Gone. WorldCat. OCLC   827936135.
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