Thriller Authors
A. F. Brady
A. F. Brady is a NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor born and raised in Manhattan, currently living in New York with her husband, their children and their dog. Her first novel THE BLIND (Park Row Books) was published in September 2017. Her second novel ONCE A LIAR (Park Row Books)…
Alisha Perkins
Writer. Author. Mental Illness Speaker. Mother. Wife. Introvert. TEDx Speaker. Learn more about Alisha on her Author Profile page. BOOKS: Running Home (2016) Martyred (2019) Biggest literary influencers: Greer Hendricks, Liv Constantine, Megan Miranda, Gillian Flynn, Peter Swanson Last book read: City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The book…
Amber Garza
Amber Garza has had a passion for the written word since she was a child making books out of notebook paper and staples. Her hobbies include reading and singing. Coffee and wine are her drinks of choice (not necessarily in that order). She writes while blaring music, and talks about…
Amy Rivers
Amy Rivers was born and raised in southern New Mexico and currently resides in Colorado with her husband and kids. Her graduate work focused on politics, psychology and forensic criminology, topics she loves to incorporate into her writing. Her latest novel, All the Broken People, was released in March 2019.…
Author Julie Clark
Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, Julie Clark grew up reading books on the beach while everyone else surfed. After attending college in Northern California and a brief stint working in athletics at Berkeley, she returned to Santa Monica to teach. She now lives there with her two sons…
Author Rob Leininger
Rob Leininger is an electronic technician (U.S. Navy), a mechanical engineer, a high school math teacher, the author of the Gumshoe P.I. series and other mysteries and thrillers. He lives in Northwest Montana with his wife and three spoiled dogs. Read our review of his latest, Gumshoe in the Dark,…
Author Ronald S. Barak
Ron Barak, bestselling author, Olympic athlete, law school honors graduate and experienced courtroom lawyer, is uniquely qualified to write novels that appeal to political and legal thriller fans. Ron resides in Pacific Palisades, California, where he is hard at work on his next novel, JK’s Code. In the meantime, read…
Author William M. Hayes
William M. Hayes lives with his beautiful family in a small suburb in New York. He became passionate about writing in his twenties. For an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Save Him, sign up for his mailing list on his website. BOOKS: Save Him (2019) The Year Santa…
Bradley Harper
COL (ret) Bradley Harper is a retired US Army pathologist with real-life experience in forensic death investigation, and he uses that experience in his writing. His debut novel, A Knife in the Fog, involves a young Arthur Conan Doyle and suffragette author Margaret Harkness in the hunt for Jack the…
Brit Lunden
Brit Lunden is a prolific author who’s written over 50 books in assorted genres under different pen names. Bulwark was her first effort in adult fiction and was chosen by several of her fellow authors as the basis for a new series, A Bulwark Anthology. Using her characters, they are…
Burt Weissbourd
Burt Weissbourd writes character-driven thrillers. It began years ago when he went to Hollywood in 1975 to produce feature films. He was 26 and didn’t know anyone in the movie business, but he'd stumbled onto a timely idea — he was going to work with, and most importantly, back screenwriters.…
Cheryl Reed
Cheryl L. Reed is an author and journalist who has shadowed dark and mysterious characters — from cops to murder suspects, cloistered nuns to girls doing drugs. Her second novel, Map of My Escape, is a suspense about Riley Keene, a school shooting survivor turned anti-gun activist who accidentally shoots…
D.P. Lyle
D.P. Lyle is the #1 Amazon bestselling author of over 20 books, both nonfiction and fiction. His books include Samantha Cody, Dub Walker, Jake Longly and Cain/Harper thriller series and the Royal Pains media tie-in novels. A Macavity Award and Benjamin Franklin Award winner, Lyle's work has also garnered many…
D.W. Maroney
As a young student living in the suburbs of Dallas at the time of the Kennedy assassination, D.W. grew up on a steady diet of conspiracy theories. To this day, D.W. still loves a good mystery and believes the truth of any event lies somewhere between the eyewitness accounts and…
Dan Grant
In life, Dan has taken the road less traveled. Crossroads have been faced with a mix of apprehension and an explorer’s passion. But the paths people take help make us who we are. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave…
David Putnam
During his law enforcement career, David Putnam worked on teams for, SWAT, Narcotics, Violent Crimes, Criminal Intelligence, Internal Affairs, Detective Bureau and as child protective services coordinator. He rounded out his law enforcement career with three years in the Hawaiian Islands as a Special Agent — part of a real-life…
Deborah Goodrich Royce
Deborah Goodrich Royce graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lake Erie College in 1980 with a BA in modern foreign languages (French and Italian) and a minor in dance. In 2008, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the same institution. Deborah was an actress in film and television…
Dennis McCort
Dennis McCort was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, the “mile square city” on the Hudson, in the shadow of Manhattan. He writes of his experiences growing up there in the postwar industrial era before gentrification in his recently published book, A Kafkaesque Memoir: Confessions from the Analytic Couch,…
Drew Murray
Drew Murray is a native of Ontario, Canada. After a corporate career in technology, he has transitioned into education and writing. He’s an avid fan of Comic Cons, escape rooms and board games, which positions him well as the author of Broken Genius, his debut novel. Drew lives with his…
Ed Fuller
ED FULLER is a hospitality industry leader, educator, and author of the international Top 20 bestselling business book, You Can’t Lead with Your Feet on the Desk, published by Wiley. He is president of the Irvine, CA-based Laguna Strategic Advisors, a global consortium that provides business consulting services to corporations and…
Erica Katz
Erica Katz is the author’s pseudonym. She’s an attorney at a large law firm in New York City. Her first novel, The Boys’ Club, portrayed a female lawyer’s fight against the patriarchy of male-dominated high-stakes law.
Gary Grossman
Gary Grossman is a multiple Emmy Award-winning television producer and author of the bestselling international political thrillers Executive Actions, Executive Treason, Executive Command, Executive Force, and Old Earth. He has also written two highly regarded non-fiction books on TV history. Grossman has been published by Dell/Delacorte, Byron Preiss Publishing, Diversion…
Humphrey Hawksley
Humphrey Hawksley is an author, foreign correspondent and commentator on world affairs. His work with the BBC has taken him to crises all over the world. His journalism has also appeared in most mainstream media in the U.K. and U.S., such as NPR, the New York Times and the London…
Ivan Obolensky
Ivan Obolensky was born in New York and educated in the US and the UK. He began by writing nonfiction articles on economics, finance, history and other social sciences. Inspired by stories about his grandmother, Alice Astor (who died while reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead and was an…
J. Luke Bennecke
Luke Bennecke is a veteran civil engineer who helps people by improving Southern California roadways. He has a civil engineering degree, an MBA, a private pilot’s certificate, and is a partner in an engineering firm. He enjoys philanthropy and awards scholarships annually to high school seniors. Bennecke resides in Southern…
J.F. Banas
Storm Surge is the debut thriller by John F. Banas. John read his first novel — Andromeda Strain — when he was just eight years old and has been hooked on thriller novels ever since. He is drawn to stories about average, everyday people who are thrust into impossible situations and…
James A. Scott
James Scott is author of The President’s Dossier, an international spy/political thriller, and The Iran Contradictions, an acclaimed historical thriller based on the Iran-contra scandal of the 1980s. Scott began writing out of dissatisfaction with thrillers that were not thrilling. For the settings of his novels, Scott draws on twenty…
James R. Hannibal
As a former stealth pilot, JAMES R. HANNIBAL is no stranger to secrets and adventure. He has been shot at, locked up with surface to air missiles, and chased down a winding German road by an armed terrorist. He is an award-winning author of multiple series, including the Nick Baron…
Janet Porter
Janet developed her singular (skewed?) worldview through a witch’s brew of nature, nurture and the times in which it was shaped. She was joined in the lower middle-class milieu by her beloved brother, Robert, after six years navigating solo. After finishing high school (and lacking any clear, purpose-driven agenda), Janet…
Jeffrey L. Diamond
JEFFREY L. DIAMOND is an award-winning journalist with forty years of experience in television news. He began his career at ABC News where he worked at Special Events, Weekend News, and World News Tonight, before moving to the weekly newsmagazine, 20/20. His body of work includes breaking news specials, newsmaker…
Jodé Millman
Jodé Millman is the author of the best-selling Seats: New York theatre guidebooks. Her debut thriller novel, The Midnight Call (our review), was released by Immortal Works Publishing in 2019 and is now available in audiobook format. The unpublished manuscript of The Midnight Call was short-listed for the 2014 Clue Award…
Jon Land
Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of 48 books, including ten titles in the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series, including Strong as Steel. Most recently, Jon has taken over the Murder, She Wrote book series based on the fabulously successful television show starring Angela Lansbury. His first effort writing…
Joseph H. Gibson
Joseph Gibson has worked for over twenty-five years in emerging technologies and has led the implementations of some of the world’s largest Search and Knowledge Management systems. He is currently engaged in the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and intent-based processing in his role as Knowledge Management Lead for…
Juno Rushdan
Juno Rushdan is an award-winning author of romantic thrillers. She drew from her background as a former military Intelligence Officer to create the Final Hour series, which includes Every Last Breath, Nothing to Fear and Until the End(Sourcebooks Publishing). A native New Yorker, she currently lives in the Washington, DC…
Karen S. Gordon
Karen's fascination with the twenty-six black and white symbols began when she embarked on her first major writing project at age three: to copy the entire Los Angeles phone directory into her older brothers' school notebooks. She's led an eclectic life. Karen got her first job at age twelve as…
Ken Langer
Ken’s love of India began when he spent a college year in Varanasi. After earning his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard, he spent two years in Pune, India translating Sanskrit love poetry, and another two years in New Delhi as a consultant to high-tech and renewable energy…
Kevin Doherty
Kevin Doherty grew up in Northern Ireland, graduated from Queen’s University Belfast, and lives in England, near Windsor Castle, with his wife Roz. His professional background is advertising and marketing. He has worked for a number of U.K. and international companies and has advised business and government agencies in Britain…
Kevin Tumlinson
Kevin Tumlinson is an award-winning and bestselling thriller author with books available in hundreds of countries worldwide. Kevin's love for history, archaeology, and science have been a tremendous source of material for his writing; they feed his fiction and give him just the excuse he needs to read the next…
Kris Frieswick
KRIS FRIESWICK is an award-winning journalist, essayist, editor and humorist who has written for and edited leading national magazines and newspapers for over 20 years. She’s an avid cyclist, traveler and cook. She splits her time between Cape Cod, MA, and St. Croix, USVI, with her husband. Read BookTrib's review of…
Laurie Petrou
LAURIE PETROU is an associate professor at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled Between, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. She was the inaugural winner of the Half the World Global Literati Award in 2016 for her unpublished…
Layla Matthews
Author Lisa Mathis is a Family Nurse Practitioner who writes under the pen name of Layla Matthews. Being in the medical field for over twenty years has given her the opportunity to see and experience a variety of medical situations. Having cared for thousands of patients and working with a…
Linda L. Richards
Linda L. Richards is a journalist and the author of 15 books, including three series of novels featuring strong female protagonists. She is the former publisher of Self-Counsel Press and the founder and publisher of January Magazine. Her short story, “Terminal City” appeared in Vancouver Noir (Akashic Books) and was…
M. L. Buchman
USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ novels, 125 short stories and 50 read-by-author audiobooks. PW declares of his Miranda Chase action-adventure thrillers that: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” About his military romantic suspense: “Like Robert Ludlum…
M.L. Huie
M. L. Huie is a writer, teacher and actor. In addition to working as a features journalist, he has written several plays that have been performed throughout the U.S. and in the U.K. Spitfire is his first novel. Read our review of Spitfire here. BOOKS: Spitfire (2020) Biggest literary influencers: Mick…
Mark E Greene
BIO: Mark E. Greene is an award-winning author with an offbeat sense of humor and a sharp eye for the absurd. A speeding lobster boat plowing through a flotilla of helpless sea kayakers sparked his interest in the rough-and-tumble world of Maine lobstermen and became the driving concept for Lobster…
Martin Jay Weiss
MARTIN JAY WEISS is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced a vast anthology of commercials, films, and television projects. He has a BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Film from New York University. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives…
Matt Coyle
Matt Coyle is the author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime series. Matt knew he wanted to be a crime writer at age fourteen when his father gave him Raymond Chandler’s The Simple Art of Murder. His books have won the Anthony, Shamus, Lefty, Ben Franklin Silver, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year…
Matt Witten
Matt Witten is a TV writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter who has written for many TV shows including House, Pretty Little Liars, Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Medium, JAG, The Glades, Homicide, Judging Amy, and Women’s Murder Club. His latest novel, The Necklace, has been optioned for film by Appian…
Max Mobley
Max Mobley writes from his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He is a former columnist for the pioneering music magazine Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock. He has written extensively for the music industry, including magazine features, reviews, interviews, and books on music technology. Max also penned the popular Rush…
Max Tomlinson
Born in the wilds of San Francisco, with its rich literary history and public transport system teeming with characters suitable for crime novels, the stage was set for Max Tomlinson to become a mystery writer. He has published multiple novels, including Sendero, which was listed as one of the top…
MHR Geer
MHR Geer was born in California but raised in the Midwest. After studying Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she started a bookkeeping business. MHR enjoys reading suspense and is always delighted with an unexpected twist. Assumed is her debut novel. She lives in Ventura, CA with her…
Michael Okon
Michael Okon is an award-winning and best-selling author of multiple genres including paranormal, thriller, horror, action/adventure and self-help. He is a screen writer, as well. He graduated from Long Island University with a degree in English, and then later received his MBA in business and finance. Coming from a family…
Mike Bond
Bestselling novelist MIKE BOND has worked in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty…
Nancy Bilyeau
NANCY BILYEAU is a magazine writer and editor who has worked on the staffs of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and InStyle. She is currently a contributor to Town & Country, Closer, Lifetime/A&E, First for Women, and The Vintage News and the deputy editor at the Center on Media, Crime and…
Otho Eskin
Otho Eskin published his first thriller, The Reflecting Pool, to great reviews and book club interest in 2020. The novel follows Marko Zorn, a D.C. homicide detective who has a strong ethical compass but refuses to play by the rules. The sequel, Head Shot, also featuring Marko Zorn, will be…
Philip Wolfson
Philip Wolfson studied Chinese politics, spycraft, language and culture at Columbia University in the 1960s, while passing the Foreign Service Examination of the United States Information Agency—all of which fueled his ongoing interest in espionage and international relations, including propaganda and cultural warfare. In his 9-year stint as Creative Supervisor…
PJ Tracy
P.J. TRACY was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot To Thrill, Off The Grid, The Sixth Idea, and Nothing Stays Buried have become national and international…
Raymond C. Perkins Jr.
Ray is a retired middle school Social Studies teacher who began writing along with his students early on in his teaching career. He has written and published three books for young readers in the B.T. and Jimmy Adventure Series. Spychip Armageddon is his first attempt at adult fiction. Growing up…
Rick Pullen
RICK PULLEN is a journalist by trade who began his novel-writing career in 2011. Naked Ambition, his first novel, made Amazon’s bestseller thriller list in 2016, just three weeks after it was published. The Apprentice was published in 2017, and Naked Truth, a sequel to Naked Ambition, followed in 2018. His agent is…
Robert McCaw
Robert McCaw grew up in a military family traveling the world. After graduating from Georgetown University, he served as a lieutenant in the US Army before earning his law degree from the University of Virginia. Thereafter he practiced as a partner in a major international law firm in Washington, D.C.…
Ron Gabriel
Ron Gabriel is a magazine industry veteran who has worked for Seventeen, The New York Times Upfront, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly and Rolling Stone. He grew up in northern New England where he loved exploring old graveyards and places rumored to be haunted. Late nights, he devoured horror fiction from Stephen…
Scott Brody
Scott Brody is the author of the political thriller, The Org. He grew up in a political home in New York, where the older generations met, supported candidates, and argued about politics. In the 60s, a teenage Scott joined in the political and cultural ferment of the time. He marched…
Sherrie Todd-Beshore
In 2006, after 20 years in journalism writing-to-space and checking facts, Sherrie crossed over to fiction full time with no limit to space and (ironically) still researching facts. Read BookTrib's review of Sherrie's book, Fine Points Malice and Payback. BOOKS: Mosquito Creek Inn (2011) Black Eagle Pass (2011) High…
Stephanie Jo Harris
Stephanie Harris is the author of psychological thrillers, and she has a special affection for all things disturbing and uncomfortable. A life-long Midwesterner and a licensed professional counselor, she spends her free time writing, day dreaming, and pursuing atypical conversation. Read BookTrib's reviews of Stephanie's books, The…
Stevie Z Fischer
Stevie Z Fischer writes about the dynamics of people, nature, and power in small-town New England. Her first novel, River Rules, looks at how everyday heroes can be forged as lives are changed by forces seemingly beyond our control. Stevie's focus on the bonds of friendship, love of nature, and…
Tammy Euliano
By day, Tammy Euliano, MD, is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Florida where she cares for patients, teaches medical students and residents, performs research, and invents cool stuff. She's been honored with numerous teaching awards, more than 100,000 views on her YouTube teaching…
Thomas Roehlk
Thomas M. Roehlk is a retired corporate attorney from St. Charles, Illinois. He worked at a variety of major international corporations, including companies in the defense sector, and businesses in consumer products, transportation equipment and financial services. He spent more than 20 years as a general counsel of a public…
Tom Farrell
Tom Farrell has worked as a golf course starter and a chemist, and clerked at City Hall in Chicago while attending law school. He has served as Vice President of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, a nonprofit corporation, and was a past finalist in the Pikes Peak Writer’s Contest in the…
Tom Threadgill
Tom Threadgill is the author of several thrillers, each with a distinct focus on clean, suspenseful action with strong character development. His fourth novel, Collision of Lies, will be released on February 4, 2020. Tom and his wife live in rural Tennessee, where he spends his time woodworking, watching hockey,…
Tom Young
Tom Young served in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Air National Guard. In all, Young logged nearly 5,000 hours as a flight engineer on the C-5 Galaxy and the C-130 Hercules while flying to almost forty countries. Military honors include the Meritorious Service Medal, three Air Medals, three Aerial Achievement…
Tony Sclama
Tony (Anthony) Sclama is a retired physician with degrees in Biology and Human Physiology from Georgetown University, Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Business/Healthcare Management from Johns Hopkins University. A Rhode Island native, his medical career spanned thirty-two years and included a full-time practice of Urologic Surgery…
Vincent Zandri
Vincent Zandri is the New York Times bestselling, ITW Thriller Award and Shamus Award-winning author of more than 40 novels and novellas. He has also been a finalist for a Derringer Award for Best Novelette. His domestic publishers include Dell, Delacorte, Thomas & Mercer, Blackstone Audio, Oceanview Publishing, Down &…