Author
Using her reporting skills and knowledge international affairs, Pilgrim writes romantic thrillers with an international flavor, featuring an archaeologist John Sinclair, and a female oceanographer, Cordelia Stapleton. The Explorer's Code is the first in the series, published by Scribner in 2011. Pilgrim's novels are "fact-based fiction"—certain events and locations are true to life. Her thrillers are characterized by their diverse locations and "around the world" approach. The Explorer's Code includes such locations as Monaco, Paris, London, Ephesus Turkey, and the high arctic in Norway.
In 2010 Pilgrim signed a two-book deal with New York publisher Charles Scribner's Sons. Her debut novel, The Explorer's Code, mass-market paperback will be available in June 2012, and sequel to The Explorer's Code will be released in time for the summer reading season of 2012.
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