Jamie Freveletti is an American writer of
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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.
Biography
Freveletti grew up in
Addison, Illinois.
After attending law school she moved to
Geneva, Switzerland to study for a diploma in International Studies.
Following her studies Freveletti started practicing as a
trial attorney
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.
Freveletti also holds a black belt in
aikido and competes in
ultramarathon
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s.
Freveletti's first thriller novel, ''Running from the Devil'', was published in 2009 and featured the character Emma Caldridge.
''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.
The second novel in the ''Emma Caldridge'' series was released the following year and the third, ''The Ninth Day'' was released in 2011.
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.
It was released in 2012 entitled ''The Janus Reprisal''.
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.
The following year her publisher released parts two and three of the novella which were entitled ''Gone'' and ''Run''.
In 2015 Freveletti's second novel in the ''Covert-One'' series, ''The Geneva Strategy'', was released.
Freveletti currently lives in
Chicago with her family.
Bibliography
Novels and novellas
Short stories
References
External links
Official website
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American thriller writers
American women novelists
Living people
People from Addison, Illinois
Year of birth missing (living people)
Barry Award winners
21st-century American women