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Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 17 thrillers, including All This Could Be Yours. She’s won every major mystery award, with thrillers translated into multiple languages worldwide. Her fiction is inspired by her storied career of writing groundbreaking true-crime stories as an on-air investigative journalist, winning an unprecedented 37 Emmy Awards. A TedX speaker and in-demand literary moderator, Library Journal calls her “a superb and gifted storyteller.” A native of Chicago with roots in Indianapolis, Ryan lives in Boston. Watch for Mother Daughter Sister Stranger coming September 2026.

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FictionListicles

How True Is Your Family History?

Every family has stories — the ones they tell over holiday dinners and on road trips, the ones grandparents passed down to their littles, the ones couples who are getting serious reveal to each other. And yes, certainly, some of those stories are true. But families repeat the stories they…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
April 1, 2026
All Aboard On the PageListicles

7 Locomotive Murder Mysteries

I once took a train from Boston to Chicago. Twenty-three hours. Twenty-three hours! I had my own little sleeping compartment, which I had envisioned as opulent and chic and very North by Northwest.  And, for about four hours, the whole thing was fabulous. Cozy, glamorous, speedy and super fun.  My imagination…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
September 22, 2025
Books About Books - Tall PoppyListicles

Can A Book Become a Main Character?

You walk to your gate at the airport, pick a chair, stash your suitcase, and see, sitting next to you, a person reading the same book you are. You could talk to that person instantly, right? Because the book gives you common ground. It’s the reason you’re reading this article…
Hank Phillippi Ryan
July 29, 2025
Miscellany

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