Walter Sorrells is an award-winning author of mystery and suspense novels for adults and teens. He has written many novels, including Fake I.D., named one the ten Best Mysteries by Booklist

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 magazine in 2005 and several novels based-on the television series Flight 29 Down

Flight 29 Down

Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale . The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull...

. He also writes under the pseudonym

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s Lynn Abercrombie and Ruth Birmingham. He graduated from Harvard College

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 in 1985, where he majored in History

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.

His novel Fulton County Blues, as Ruth Birmingham, won the 2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original.

As Ruth Birmingham

• Atlanta Graves (1998)
• Fulton Country Blues (1999)
• Sweet Georgia (2000)
• Blue Plate Special (2001)
• Cold Trail (2002)
• Feet of Clay (2006)

As Walter Sorrells

• Power of Attorney (1995)
• Will to Murder (1996)
• Cry for Justice (1996)
• Proof of Intent (2002)
• Fake I.D. (2005)
• The Silent Room (2006)
• Club Dread (2006)
• Static (2006) (Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale . The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull...
  
  )
• Scratch (2006) (Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale . The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull...
  
  )
• Ten Rules (2006) (Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale . The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull...
  
  )
• First Shot (2007)
• White Out (2007)
• On Fire (2007) (Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale . The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull...
  
  )
• Survival (2007) (Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down
  Flight 29 Down is a television series about a group of teenagers who are stranded on an island. It was produced by Discovery Kids. The show was created by Stan Rogow and D. J. MacHale . The executive producers are Rogow, MacHale, Shauna Shapiro Jackson, and Gina & Rann Watumull...
  
  )
• Erratum (2008)
• The Travelers (2009)