Name Dete Meserve Role Film producer | Movies The Keeping Room, Bernie | |
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Nominations Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature, Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature Film Similar David McFadzean, Matt Williams, Ginger Sledge, Liz Glotzer, Richard Linklater | ||
Perfectly Good Crime by Dete Meserve (Reviews)
Dete Meserve is an award-winning and bestselling author as well as film and television executive and a principal of Wind Dancer Films. Wind Dancer Films is best known as the creators and producers of Home Improvement starring Tim Allen, What Women Want starring Helen Hunt and Mel Gibson, Where The Heart Is starring Natalie Portman. Meserve's credits include producing Bernie starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey, executive producer of Walker Payne starring Sam Shepard and Jason Patric, executive producer of the TV series Wildest Africa for Discovery International, executive producer of As Cool As I Am, starring Claire Danes and James Marsden. In 2014, she was an executive producer of the George Lopez sitcom, "Saint George," and producer of the thriller, The Keeping Room starring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling. She is currently an Executive Producer of the hit kids television series Ready Jet Go on PBSKids.
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Meserve's bestselling novel, 'Good Sam,' is about the search for an anonymous good samaritan who's leaving $100,000 on Los Angeles doorsteps. The novel has won four national book awards and is being developed into a film. Kirkus Reviews calls Good Sam, "a solid, feel-good romance sparked with mystery."
Her latest novel, 'Perfectly Good Crime', was published on June 28, 2016. "A first-rate and undaunted protagonist easily carries this brisk crime tale. Kate is intuitive and professional, but it's her steadfast compassion that makes her truly remarkable."—Kirkus Reviews. When the estates of the 100 wealthiest Americans are targeted in a series of sophisticated, high tech heists, Los Angeles TV news reporter Kate Bradley must venture inside the world of the super rich to investigate the biggest story of the year.
Originally a native of Chicago, Illinois, Meserve resides in Los Angeles with her husband, three kids, and a cat that rules them all.