Fred Van Lente Fred Van Lente is a six-time New York Times bestselling comics writer, novelist and playwright whose work spans mysteries to historical fiction to superheroes to comedy. His thriller novels are Ten Dead Comedians, The Con Artist and Never Sleep. He i especially qualified to write Murder Kingdom because he spent a summer during college as a fry cook at an amusement park, although he has not, to his knowledge, ever killed anybody. Read More Read Less