A Boost for Gardiner from King, and A Clown’s Applause The UK edition of crime writer Meg Gardiner’s 2002 thriller CHINA LAKE and her full Evan Delaney series is in demand here, in more ways than one, after Stephen King mentioned the book on his blog in December and then wrote about it in a February EW column. King calls her “the next suspense superstar.… This woman is as good as Michael Connelly and far better than Janet Evanovich.” (Gardiner lives in the UK now, but she is American and her books are set in Los Angeles.) Britt Carlson at […]