Question: The author of the book "A Place of Execution" is best know for a series of suspense novels featuring what character?

Context articles: David C. Smith (author)
Brian Freeman
A Place of Execution
Ted Bell
Brad Parks
Mary Higgins Clark
Janice MacDonald
Mack Bolan
Val McDermid
The Power of Five

David C. Smith (born August 10, 1952) is an American author of fantasy, horror, and suspense fiction, medical editor, and essayist.
 He is best known for his heroic fantasy novels, including his collaborations with Richard L. Tierney featuring characters created by Robert E. Howard, notably six novels featuring Red Sonja.
Brian Freeman (born March 28, 1963) is an author of psychological suspense novels featuring Jonathan Stride and Serena Dials, and a series featuring Cab Bolton.
A Place of Execution is an acclaimed crime novel by Val McDermid, first published in 1999.
 The novel won the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, the 2001 Dilys Award, was shortlisted for both the Gold Dagger and the Edgar Award, and was chosen by "The New York Times" as one of the most notable books of the year.
Ted Bell is an American author of suspense novels such as "Hawke" and "Assassin", "Pirate", and "Spy" and "Warlord" and "Phantom".
 He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels featuring the character Lord Alexander Hawke.
Brad Parks (born July 13, 1974) is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers.
 He is the winner of the 2010 and 2014 Shamus Award, the 2010 Nero Award and the 2013 and 2014 Lefty Award.
 He is the only author to have won all three of those awards.
 He writes both standalone domestic suspense novels and a series featuring investigative reporter Carter Ross, who covers crime for a fictional newspaper "The Newark Eagle-Examiner", based in Newark, New Jersey.
 His novels are known for mixing humor with the gritty realism of their urban setting.
 Library Journal has called him "a gifted storyteller (with shades of Mark Twain or maybe Dave Barry)."
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney (née Higgins; born December 24, 1927), known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels.
 Each of her 51 books has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remained in print as of 2015, with her debut suspense novel, "Where Are The Children", in its seventy-fifth printing.
Janice Elva MacDonald (born 1959 in Banff, Alberta) is a Canadian writer of literary and mystery novels, textbooks, non-fiction, and stories for both adults and children.
 She is best known as the creator of a series of comic academic mystery novels featuring reluctant amateur sleuth Miranda "Randy" Craig, all of which are set in Edmonton, Alberta.
 The latest of these, "Another Margaret: A Randy Craig Mystery", released in September 2015, takes Miranda to a reunion of her fellow graduate school students and resurrects a mystery involving a Canadian literary figure who has been long-believed dead.
 "The Roar of the Crowd: A Randy Craig Mystery" was released on July 10, 2014, with a plot involving the Edmonton theatre scene, including the Freewill Shakespeare Festival and the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, and it went on to be nominated for the David Award for Best Mystery Novel at the 2015 Deadly Ink Conference and featured as a recommended read in both the "2015 Edmonton Travel Guide" and the 2015 "Avenue Magazine" Summer Reading Guide.
 "Condemned to Repeat: A Randy Craig Mystery," was published on June 15, 2013, and involves a series of deadly events connected to Alberta historic sites, including Rutherford House, Fort Edmonton Park, and the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village; it debuted in the top spot on the Edmonton Journal's bestseller list on June 21, 2013 and went on to be shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher at the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards as well as the David Award for Best Mystery Novel at the 2014 Deadly Ink Conference.
 "Hang Down Your Head: A Randy Craig Mystery," was published in November 2011 and features "cameo" appearances by several real-life folk musicians, as well as a corpse discovered at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival.
 The book was a hit in MacDonald's home city and spent more than six months on the Edmonton Journal's Top 10 list.
 The book and its author were profiled on CBC Radio, CityTV's Breakfast Television show, in the Edmonton Journal, and in the Edmonton Examiner.
 A January 2012 cover story in "Edmonton Woman Magazine" and a half-hour interview on the CKUA Radio Network's ArtBeat program, looked more extensively at the entire mystery series.
Mack Bolan, alias "The Executioner", is a fictional character who has been serialized in over 600 novels with sales of more than 200 million books.
 Created by Don Pendleton, Bolan made his first appearance on the printed page in "War Against the Mafia" (1969).
 Pendleton wrote 37 other novels featuring Bolan, often referred to as the "Mafia Wars".
 In 1980, Pendleton sold his rights to the character to Gold Eagle, which hired a number of ghostwriters to continue publishing Bolan monthly, to satisfy reader demand worldwide.
 Don Pendleton remained credited as the sole author and supervised these new adventures, which took the Bolan character all over the world fighting terrorism.
 This new series of books featured Bolan as a principled warrior fighting larger-than-life adversaries in the spirit of a tougher, American version of James Bond.
 The demand for the books continued, and Gold Eagle began releasing as many as 15 titles annually.
 Additionally, Bolan was "spun off" into several new adventure book series which also carried the Mack Bolan/Don Pendleton names and sold remarkably well.
 As of 2014, there are still more than a dozen Mack Bolan novels published every year worldwide by Gold Eagle Books, a division of Harlequin Books.
Val McDermid FRSE, FRSL (born 4 June 1955) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels featuring Dr. Tony Hill.
The Power of Five (also known as The Gatekeepers in the US) is a series of five fantasy and suspense novels, written by English author Anthony Horowitz and published between 2005 and 2012.
 It is an updated re-imagining of Horowitz's "Pentagram" series, which the author had left unfinished in the 1980s.
 The series is published in the United Kingdom by Walker Books Ltd and in the United States by Scholastic Press.
 The novels deal heavily in the occult and examples of things such as human sacrifice and blood rituals are major plot elements, such as in the first book, where Matthew Freeman is hunted by a Cult who want to conduct a blood sacrifice on him to blast open a portal using a combination of nuclear physics and black magic, to unlock another dimension which is holding a group of ancient evil demons captive.