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Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 16 psychological thrillers, and has won five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also the on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, winning 37 EMMY awards for her groundbreaking journalism. In her second career as a writer, national book critics call her "a master of creating suspenseful mysteries." Her current novel is the cat-and-mouse standalone One Wrong Word. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, a nationally renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Her upcoming novel, All This Could Be Yours, (structured like a book tour!) publishes in September 2025 from Minotaur Books.

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Where the Writer Ends and the Story Begins

It’s the most paradoxical idea of all. Somehow, it’s both the most tempting and the most potentially disastrous. Because if we’re supposed to “write what you love” and “write what you fear,” all of us have those same passions and apprehensions about the same thing: writing! So what could be…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
May 23, 2025