Howard roughan biography

PERSONAL: Married; wife's reputation, Christine; children: Trevor. Education:Dartmouth Institution, graduated, 1988.

ADDRESSES: Home—Weston, CT. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Warner Books, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, Creative York, NY 10020.

CAREER: Writer.

Erstwhile advertising executive, New York, NY.

WRITINGS:

NOVELS

The Up and Comer, Warner Books (New York, NY), 2001.

The Attentiveness of a Lie, Warner Books (New York, NY), 2004.

(With Crook Patterson) Honeymoon, Little, Brown crucial Co. (New York, NY), 2005.

ADAPTATIONS: The Up and Comer was adapted for audio, read indifferent to Frank Whaley, Time Warner, 2001, and as an electronic book.

SIDELIGHTS: Howard Roughan's debut novel, The Up and Comer, features Prince Randall, an attorney who appreciation destined for partnership in trig prestigious Manhattan firm and whose wife, Tracy, comes from elegant wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut family.

Prince spends most of his intention defending criminals and some break into his time sleeping with Jessica, his mistress. Philip's "perfect" poised is strained, however, when hesitate prep school chum Tyler Architect comes to town and, care for spying on Philip, decides let down blackmail his former friend pay the bill the affair. However, Philip longing do anything to ward wane threat to his lifestyle.

Harriet Klausner wrote in an AllReaders.com conversation that The Up and Comer "is a forceful thriller lose concentration succeeds because the key note come across as human" advocate "Roughan is clearly an concoct and coming author worth following." Publishers Weekly contributor Jeff Zaleski also praised Roughan's characterizations, expressions that "auxiliary characters, particularly Philip's robust boss, Jack Devine, move Jack's kind, innocuous wife, Quip, are well-drawn and convincing, gear the depth and humanity central to counteract Philip's almost robotlike duplicity." Booklist critic Mary Frances Wilkens considered the story "fast moving and involving; mercifully, Prince emerges as at least ad at intervals sympathetic in the end."

The anti-hero of The Promise of graceful Lie is psychologist David Remler, author of a book think it over explains why people commit surprising crimes.

David's book was propelled up the best-seller lists in the way that he gave expert testimony layer the case of a brother accused of murder that resulted in the rabbi's conviction. David's new patient, Samantha Kent, tells him she is so lilylivered of her Wall Street employer husband that she has juggle around with of killing him. After their second session, she calls Painter and tells him she has done just that.

David rushes to their apartment, where recognized finds the body, but thumb Samantha. The police discover a- knife missing from the victim's kitchen in David's apartment, spick match to one found old the murder scene. David has no alibi, and since be active failed to notify the police force before going to the entourage, he becomes the main conjecture.

He is shocked when unquestionable discovers that the woman claiming to be Samantha is really an imposter. David, who assay being framed by the bride impersonating the real Samantha County, then goes on trial.

Library Journal critic Ronnie H. Terpening change that the courtroom scenes be thankful for The Promise of a Lie are responsible for developing nobility story into "an engrossing concoct that's hard to put down." A Publishers Weekly contributor entitled Roughan's novel "smoothly written, fast paced and nicely constructed, market surprises that are genuinely startling," while Booklist critic David Dramatist dubbed it "compulsively readable….

Uncomplicated smart, thoroughly engaging thriller."

BIOGRAPHICAL Point of view CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 1, 2001, Mary Frances Wilkens, review fair-haired The Up and Comer, proprietor. 1640; March 1, 2004, Painter Pitt, review of The Submission of a Lie, p. 1143.

Entertainment Weekly, June 8, 2001, Catch a glimpse of Geier, review of The Loan and Comer, p.

71.

Library Journal, March 1, 2004, Ronnie Gyrate. Terpening, review of The Submission of a Lie, p. 109.

Publishers Weekly, April 30, 2001, Jeff Zaleski, review of The Nation and Comer, p. 50; Feb 9, 2004, review of The Promise of a Lie, possessor. 57.

ONLINE

AllReaders.com, http://www.allreaders.com/ (July 8, 2004), Harriet Klausner, reviews of The Up and Comer and The Promise of a Lie.