Meet the Thriller Author (Author Interviews)

Other Books by Julie Clark Video Transcript

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Other books by Dean Koontz Video Version Transcript

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This is a special episode. A personal one for me. It’s dedicated to a friend and bestselling author John Hindmarsh. John passed away on Sunday, May 29th. His legacy lives on in his great books. His last four books (part of the bestselling Jack Foster series) have close to 9,000 Amazon reviews with a 4.5...

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Latest Book Other books by A.M. Adair Show Notes & Links As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. When possible, I also use affiliate links from other affiliate programs so I might earn a commission from any links clicked on this website. Author mentions during the podcast: R. L. Stine Christopher Pike James...

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Show Notes – Jeremy Scott Interview Interview archives Cinemasins (9 million subscribers) Jeremy’s Young Adult series. Transcript

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More Books by Sara Blaedel Transcript

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Photo Credit: Jeff Wojtaszek Other Books by Lisa Scottoline Transcript Please note, Transcript was generated using automated software that claims 80% accuracy. The text has only been lightly edited by a human, so there might be errors.

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Other Books by Nick Petrie

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More Books by Craig Martelle Craig’s Non-Fiction Books for Writers Show Notes and Resources The 20Books Conference info here, especially if you’re intrested in joining. Tickets for the 2022 conference in November open up on  January 8, 2022 and they have sold out in the past. Cool video about the 20Books Conference which we talked...

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Vannessa Cronin arrived in the U.S. from Ireland over two decades ago and has spent the intervening years working in the book industry as a book buyer, a sales rep, an Amazon Bookstore curator, and now an Amazon Books senior editor. She covers the mystery, thriller & suspense category but, really, there’s almost no genre...

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Latest Book Other Books Show Notes and Resources Click here for original interview. Video of my interview with Glenn Dyer back in May 2020. About Pearl Harbor Resemberence Day. I included a clip of FDR’s famous “Day of Infamy” speech in this episode. Here is an interesting look behind that iconic speech from the CBS...

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Latest Book Show Notes & Resources Writer orgnaziation’s discussed: Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color Transcript – Please note, I used an automated software program to generate this transcript, not a human. I only do a light edit so it might be choppy and have mistakes. Accuracy according to the...

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Latest Book Other Books Show Notes and Resources Author influences: Robert B. Parker, Mickey Spillane, John D. MacDonald, Ernest Hemingway, Tony Hillerman Actor Bronson Pinchot narrates the Arthur Nakai novels. He has narrated many audiobooks. Book Trailer for WHEN SILENCE SCREAMS Transcript

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Latest Book Show Notes Author mentions: James Patterson (especially the Alex Cross series) John Grisham Stephen King Terry McMillion Beverly Jenkins Toni Morrison Deadline article about HER NAME IS KNIGHT option deal for television series.

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More Books by H.Y. Hanna

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Latest Book Other Books by Lee Child Others Books by Andrew Child (As Andrew Grant) Show Notes and Resources

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Show Notes Other author mentions: John R. Erickson, Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy, Don Bentley, Brad Taylor, Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, Larry McMurty. Transcript (Note I use automated software to transcribe and only do a very light edit, so the text might be read choppy and have errors).

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Rory Clements Latest Book Other Books by Rory Clements Show Notes and Resources Auhtor influences: Ian Fleming. WIlliam Goldman. Transcript Note: I use an automated transciption program, not a human with only a light edit. So some parts might read choppy.

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Connect with Ian K. Smith Other Books by Ian K. Smith Non-Ficiton Books

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Other Books by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Show Notes Other author mentions/influences: Donna Tartt, Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Hilary Mantel My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff.

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Scott Shepherd’s Latest Book Other Books by Scott Shepherd Show Notes and Resources Other author mentions: Ross MacDonald, Stephen King, Harlan Coben, Karin Slughter, Lawrence Sanders, Daniel Pyne (Scott’s television writing partner who now also writing thiller novels), The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Otto Penzler owner of the The Mysterious Bookshop in New York...

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Lisa Regan is the USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Detective Josie Quinn series as well as several other crime fiction titles. Her latest book, HER DEADLY TOUCH is the twelth book in the bestselling Detective Josie Quinn series. Latest Book by Lisa Regan More Books by Lisa Regan Show Notes...

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Andrews & Wilson Latest Book Other Books by Andrews and Wilson Dark Intercept Trailer

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Matthew FitzSimmons Latest Book Other Books by Matthew FitzSimmons Resources and Links Other author and book mentions: Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Dean Koontz, Earnest Hemingway, The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories. Video Interview

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Image Credit: Luis Noble John Gaspard’s Latest Book Other Books by John Gaspard Show Notes and Resources Other books and author mentions: Jeffrey Deaver. Nevada Barr. Lawrence Block. Louise Penny. John’s podcast: The Eli Marks Podcast. Wriiting tools: John writes on Word. Vellum to format books for publishing.

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Image Credit: Luis Noble Ashley Winstead’s Latest Book Show Notes and Resources Other books and author mentions: The Divines Ellie Eaton. Gillian Flynn. Vanessa Lillie. Writer tools: Wayback Machine for research. Ashely writes and oultines on Word.

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Terry Roberts is the author of three celebrated novels: A Short Time to Stay Here (winner of the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction); That Bright Land (winner of the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the James Still Award for Writing About the Appalachian South and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for...

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Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and badge in real life before turning to crime writing. The first Latina to attain the rank of captain in her police department, she retired as the Commander of Special Investigations and Forensics. During more than two decades on the force, her assignments included hostage negotiator, department spokesperson, and precinct...

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Gregg Olsen is a New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of nonfiction books and novels, most of which are crime-related. An impassioned voice for victims and their families, Olsen has been a guest on Dateline, 48 Hours, 20/20, William Shatner’s Aftermath, Deadly Women, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning,...

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Eva Lesko Natiello is the award-winning author of NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestseller, THE MEMORY BOX, a HOUSTON WRITERS GUILD MANUSCRIPT AWARD WINNER. She is a graduate of SUNY Albany with a degree in psychology. Eva is a native of Yonkers, NY and currently lives in suburban New Jersey with her family. THE...

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M. J. Polelle is a Harvard Law School graduate, an emeritus professor of the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, and an award-winning legal writer. He honed his fiction writing at the summer writers’ workshop of the University of Iowa and the Writers’ Loft in Chicago. Polelle’s passion for Italy has led him to travel...

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Award-winning author Lorraine Evanoff’s highly addictive, suspenseful thrillers are perfect for fans of Erik Larson, Jack Slater and Kathy Reichs. Former Hollywood finance exec Lorraine Evanoff uses classic mystery storytelling to spin complex tales of international finance with a sexy female heroine. Lorraine’s best-selling Louise Moscow Novels, FOLIAGE and the newly released PINOT NOIR, are...

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Jeffrey James Higgins is a former reporter and retired supervisory special agent who writes thriller novels, creative nonfiction, short stories, and essays. He has wrestled an IED away from a suicide bomber, fought the Taliban in combat, and chased terrorists across five continents. He received both the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Heroism and the...

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Mary Keliikoa is the author of the Lefty and Agatha award nominated PI Kelly Pruett mystery series and the upcoming Misty Pines mystery series featuring Sheriff Jax Turner slated for release in September 2022. Mary worked as a legal secretary, giving her a front row seat on the legal maneuverings that took place every day...

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Robyn Gigl is an attorney, speaker, and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ PrideNetwork for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. Robyn has been practicing law for more than 40 years, representing clients in state and federal courts, and has been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court...

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Don is the author of the Matt Drake thriller series including WITHOUT SANCTION, THE OUTSIDE MAN, and two forth coming titles, as well as TARGET ACQUIRED, a Tom Clancy Jack Ryan, Jr. novel. Don spent a decade as an Army Apache helicopter pilot during which time he was stationed in South Korea, Germany, and Texas. ...

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Alma Katsu’s books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated and won multiple prestigous awards, and appeared on numerous Best Books lists including NPR, the Observer, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon. RED WIDOW is her first spy...

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Kiersten Modglin is an Amazon Top 30 bestselling author of award-winning psychological thrillers and a member of International Thriller Writers. Kiersten lives in Nashville, Tennessee with her husband, daughter, and their two Boston Terriers. She is best known for her unpredictable suspense and her readers have dubbed her ‘The Queen of Twists.’  Kiersten is amazing....

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David Yoon is the New York Times bestselling author of YA books Frankly in Love and Super Fake Love Song. His first adult thriller, Version Zero will be published on May 25, 2021. He’s a William C. Morris Award finalist and an Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Honor book recipient. He’s also co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a...

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Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. He has served two terms as president of Mystery Writers of America, and was recently named a Grand Master of MWA, whose ranks include Agatha...

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Carter Wilson is the USA Today and #1 Denver Post bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed, standalone psychological thrillers, as well as numerous short stories. He is an ITW Thriller Award finalist, a four-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, and his novels have received multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. His seventh novel, The Dead Husband, will be...

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Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture. A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrastibaking, playing JRPGs and dating sims,...

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Clare Whitfield is a UK based writer. She has been a dancer, copywriter, amateur fire breather, buyer and mediocre weightlifter. People of Abandoned Character is her first novel.. It’s a historical crime thriller set against the backdrop of Jack the Ripper’s hunting ground in Victorian London and told from a woman’s perspective who believes her...

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W.A. Winter is the pen name of William Swanson, a Minneapolis journalist and true crime expert. Swanson is the author of three true-crime books: Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson, Black White Blue: The Assassination of Patrolman Sackett, and Stolen from the Garden: The Kidnapping of Virginia Piper. Under his pen name W.A. Winter,...

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Amazon best-selling author Frank H Jordan was born in Western Australia and now lives in central Queensland with his author wife, Alicia Hope who is also an author. Trained in martial arts, and an ex-weekend warrior (Army reservist) with the Australian Defence Force, Frank showcases his interests in combat and all things military in the...

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones writes dark, edgy fiction to include the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series and her latest book, the crime thriller THE POET is now avaialble. THE POET, follows Samantha Jazz, the lead detective on the case of a violent serial killer dubbed “The Poet.” It’s...

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Michael Kaufman, PhD, is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction books. As an advisor, activist, and keynote speaker, he has developed innovative approaches to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality and positively transforming men’s lives. Over the past four decades his work with the United Nations, governments, non-governmental organizations, corporations, trade unions,...

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Brett Godfrey is a lawyer, engineer, pilot, and author of BLACK SUNRISE, a new techno thriller suspense novel that is becoming a sensation in its niche. Brett’s has a fascinating background and life experiences that have provided him with unique insight and knowledge regarding what keeps Americans up at night and has been been able...

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Excited to have bestselling author Peter May back on the podcast (here is the first interview). Peter May was born in Glasgow, but now lives in France, where his books have won several awards and he has a large following of fans. He’s sold more than five million books worldswide. His latest book, The Night Gate,...

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I’m thrilled to welcome back the legandary author, Dean Koontz back to the podcast. Dean Koontz is the interantioally known bestselling author of thriller and suspense novels; although it’s hard to pin him down, genre-wise, since he popularized mishmasing genres much to publishers chagrin. His books are published in 38 languages and he has sold...

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James Rosone started a military career in the Army National Guard as a communications specialist and forward observer for a self-propelled artillery unit. He later joined the U.S. Air Force, becoming an interrogator during 2007 Iraq War troop surge. He has over 2,000 hours of experience interrogating Al Qaeda prisoners.  After 10 years of service...

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Tim is from Louisiana and has lived all over Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, and Milan, Italy where the inspiration for The Strange Case of Eliza Doolittle began. He’s probably the only bartender to have worked in the French Quarter of New Orealns, San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf and the Navy Pier in...

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Dana Stabenow is an author of science fiction, mystery/crime fiction, suspense/thriller, and historical adventure novels. Dana Stabenow was born in Anchorage and raised on 75-foot fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. She knew there was a warmer, drier job out there somewhere and found it in writing. Her first science fiction novel, Second Star,...

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#1 NYT bestselling author Mark Greaney’s debut international thriller, THE GRAY MAN, was published in 2009 and became a national bestseller and a highly sought-after Hollywood property. Ten subsequent Gray Man novels have been released to date, including his latest, RELENTLESS. Mark is also the #1 New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of seven Tom Clancy novels, including his most...

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Sebastian Fitzek is one of Europe’s most successful authors of psychological thrillers. His books have sold 12 million copies, been translated into more than twenty-four languages and are the basis for international cinema and theatre adaptations. His latest book, PASSENGER 23 was published on Feburary 4th. It’s a terryfying thriller about a cruise ship passenger...

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PAUL VIDICH’S fourth novel, The Mercenary, is forthcoming from Pegasus Books in February 2021. His debut novel, An Honorable Man, was selected by Publisher’s Weekly as a Top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016. It was followed the next year by The Good Assassin. Both books were published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books, an imprint of...

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Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated and beloved writers. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than twenty languages. Mosley is the author of the acclaimed Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, including national bestsellers Cinnamon Kiss, Little Scarlet, and Bad Boy Brawly Brown; the Fearless Jones series, including...

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Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 22 thrillers including the ORPHAN X series. His novels have won numerous literary awards and have been published in 33 languages. Additionally, he’s written screenplays and television scripts for many of the major studios and networks, comics for DC and Marvel, and political...

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After a long career in business that gave him the opportunity to travel to all but one continent and countless countries around the globe, David decided to write his first novel, Deliberate Duplicity. He lives in Illinois with his wife. When he’s not writing, he spends as much time as possible with his wife and...

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Edwin is the Edgar- and Agatha-award nominated author of Little Comfort, The Missing Ones, and Watch Her. He was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and spent most of his childhood obsessing over The Famous Five, Agatha Christie, and somehow finding a way into C.S. Lewis’s wardrobe. His parents were fond of taking his sister and him...

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Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of 50 books including the bestselling and critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series. A few years ago, Jon took over the MURDER, SHE WROTE book series based on the hit CBS television show starring Angela Lansbury. He reenergized the iconic series which includes 50+ books published so far...

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Robert B. 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 JD degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Upon graduation from law school he spent a year as a judicial clerk for Supreme Court...

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Les Edgerton has published more than 20 books, his latest Hard Times, was published by Bronzeville Books on December 7, 2020. Les teaches creative writing on the university level, through private coaching of writers, and on various on-line venues. His fiction has been nominated for or won: the Pushcart Prize, O. Henry Award, Edgar Allan...

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Jeff Lindsay is the author of the Riley Wolfe novels, and the New York Times bestselling author of the Dexter novels, which debuted in 2004 with Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Dexter aired as a series on Showtime with the first season based on Darkly Dreaming Dexter and actor Michael C. Hall playing the character. The show...

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Eileen Ormsby is a lawyer, author and freelance journalist based in Melbourne. Her first book, Silk Road was the world’s first in-depth expose of the black markets that operate on the dark web. Eileen’s gonzo-style investigations have led her deep into the secretive corners of the dark web where drugs and weapons dealers, hackers, hitmen...

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Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and is regarded as the world’s foremost authority on crime, mystery and suspense fiction. He founded The Mysterious Press in 1975. He sold it to Warner Books in 1989. He reacquired the imprint in 2010 and it now publishes original books as...

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Jennifer is a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist who aims to shed light and hope in the dark places of the human experience. The television or movie screen is the closest most people will ever come to witnessing the forensic world. But Jennifer actually lived it. As a daughter of a medical examiner whose...

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From his beginnings as a young stand-up comedian (Def Comedy Jam All-Stars vol. 12), Danny Gardner has enjoyed careers as an actor, director, and screenwriter. His latest book is ACE BOON COON which is the second book in the “Tales of Eliot Caprice” series featuring disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice who is caught between...

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K. A. Perry brings a unique perspective to her environmental thrillers. Her ability to utilize nature as the catalyst to keep her plot moving, and drive the character’s pursuit of the truth, stems from her own appreciation and love of nature. Time spent in nature is restorative for many folks, and this tenet is an...

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Dan Padavona has written horror and thriller novels. He’s the author of the bestselling Darkwater Cove Psychological Thriller series. The latest book in that series DON’T BREATHE will be published on October 29th. Dan Padavona was born and raised in Cortland, New York, not far from the Finger Lakes region. He lives in Upstate New...

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Rick Mofina is a former journalist who has interviewed murderers on death row, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He’s also reported from Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, the Caribbean, and Kuwait’s border with Iraq. His true-crime freelance work has...

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Noelle Holten is an award-winning blogger at Crime Book Junkie. She is the PR & Social Media Manager for Bookouture, a leading digital publisher in the UK, and worked as a Senior Probation Officer for eighteen years. Dead Inside was her debut novel and the start of a new series featuring DC Maggie Jamieson. The...

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Brian Freeman is a New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers, including the Jonathan Stride and Frost Easton series. His books have been sold in 46 countries and 22 languages. He is widely acclaimed for his “you are there” settings and his complex, engaging characters and twist-filled plots. Brian was also selected as the...

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Paul Levine has worked as a newspaper reporter, a law professor and a trial lawyer before becoming a full-time novelist. His books have been translated into 23 languages. His latest book CHEATER’S GAME is an Amazon bestseller based on the college admissions scandal that is sending Aunt Becky from Full House to jail. During the...

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Andrews & Wilson is bestselling coauthor team of multiple covert ops and action-adventure thriller series: TIER ONE, SONS of VALOR, and THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a psychology degree from Vanderbilt and a masters in business from Cornell University. He is the author...

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Joshua Hood is the author of The Treadstone Resurrection & Search and Destroy Series. Before becoming a bestselling author, Joshua joined the army after graduating with an English degree from the University of Memphis. He spent five years in the 82nd Airborne Division, becoming a team leader in the 3-504 Parachute Infantry Regiment in Iraq...

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Thomas O’Callaghan’s work has been translated for publication in Germany, Slovakia, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, China, and Italy. As an internationally acclaimed author, Mr. O’Callaghan is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers associations. A native of New York City and a graduate of Richmond College, Mr. O’Callaghan...

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International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College,...

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Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve...

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John Gilstrap is the New York Times bestselling author of Total Mayhem, Scorpion Strike, Final Target, Friendly Fire, Against All Enemies, End Game, High Treason, Damage Control, Threat Warning, Hostage Zero, No Mercy, Nathan’s Run, At All Costs, and Six Minutes to Freedom. In addition, John has written four screenplays for Hollywood, adapting the works...

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Happy to have Joseph Reid back on the podcast! I interviewed Joe back in 2018 when his writing career was starting off with the first book in his now bestselling Seth Walker series featuring the air marshal-turned-investigator who solves crimes in and around aviation.  The latest book in that series, DEPARTURE, will be published on...

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Tracy Clark is a native Chicagoan who writes mysteries set in her hometown while working as an editor in the newspaper industry. She is a graduate of Mundelein College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she earned her MA. Her latest novel, WHAT YOU DON’T...

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Charlie Donlea is the USA Today and International bestselling author of Summit Lake, The Girl Who Was Taken, Don’t Believe It, and Some Choose Darkness. His latest novel, The Suicide House will be available on July 28, 2020. It’s one of my favorite thrillers I’ve read so far in 202o. You can read my book...

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Michael Elias is an award-winning writer, actor and director who has written film, television, theatre and fiction. His latest novel, You Can Go Home Now, is a timely and addictive psychological thriller featuring a female cop on the hunt for a killer while battling violent secrets of her own. The book will be published by...

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John Bishop writes the Doc Brady Medical Thriller series. He spent thirty years as a practicing orthopedic surgeon giving the reader a unique glimpse into the medical world with all its problems, intricacies and complexities, while at the same time revealing the compassion and dedication of most health care professionals. Lost for over 20 years,...

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Long captivated by the events of World War II, Glenn Dyer couples this fascination with his passion for historical thrillers with the publication of “The Torch Betrayal“, the first in the Conor Thorn Series, and “The Ultra Betrayal“, the second in the series. He lives in Park City, Utah with his wife. Glenn spent thirty-seven...

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Author of the New York Times bestselling Jericho Quinn Thriller series, Marc Cameron’s short stories have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and BOYS LIFE magazine. In late 2016, he was chosen to continue the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan/Campus Thriller series. Cameron is a retired Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal who spent nearly thirty years in...

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T.R. Ragan (Theresa Ragan) is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. Her exciting Lizzy Gardner series: Abducted, Dead Weight, A Dark Mind, Obsessed, Almost Dead, and Evil Never Dies, has received tremendous praise. In August 2015 Evil Never Dies hit #7 on the Wall Street Journal Bestselling List. Since...

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#1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Barbara Nickless promised her mother she’d be a novelist when she grew up. What could be safer than sitting at a desk all day? But a sense of adventure led her astray for a few decades. Now an award-winning author and creative writing instructor, she spends...

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Scott Carson is the pen name for a New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter. He lives in New England—just above a dam. THE CHILL is Scott’s first foray into the supernatural territory since THE RIDGE and SO COLD THE RIVER in nearly a decade. Scott Carson as Michael Koryta is the New York Times-bestselling...

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Andrew Mayne has starred in his own television show on A&E, Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne, and on Shark Week. He’s a bestselling novelist and magician. He started his first world tour as an illusionist when he was a teenager and went on to work behind the scenes for Penn & Teller, David Blaine and David...

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Andrews & Wilson is the bestselling co-author team of several covert ops and action-adventure thriller books in the TIER ONE series and other books. Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a psychology degree from Vanderbilt and a masters in business from Cornell University. He is the...

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Jason Pinter is the bestselling author of Hide Away, the first Rachel Marin novel, as well as five novels in his Henry Parker thriller series and the standalone novel The Castle, which have over one million copies in print worldwide and have been published in over a dozen countries. He is the Founder and Publisher...

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Marcia Clark is a bestselling author and a criminal lawyer who began her career in law as a criminal defense attorney and went on to become a prosecutor in the L.A. District Attorney’s Office in 1981. She spent ten years in the Special Trials Unit, where she handled a number of high profile cases, including...

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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Goldberg is back on the podcast to chat about his latest release FAKE TRUTH (the third book in his Ian Ludlow series). Lee Goldberg writes books and television shows (which we talk about during the interview). His mother wanted him to be a doctor, and his grandfather wanted...

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I’m honored to have Dean Koontz back on the podcast (you can catch my first interview with Dean Koontz here). When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. His books are published in 38 languages and he has sold over 500 million...

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Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 21 thrillers, including the ORPHAN X series, and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been published in 32 languages. Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many...

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As a professor of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Bill Brewer learned the value of stories to keep his students engaged. Storytelling is a passion of his, which extends beyond the lecture hall. He enjoys writing because a character’s traits and personality grow as the story develops. Readers develop a connection with the character and are...

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Matt Coyle is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him the simple art of murder by Raymond Chandler. He graduated with a degree in English from University of California at Santa Barbara. His foray into...

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Peter Riva has spent many months over thirty years traveling throughout Africa and Europe. Much of his time was spent with the legendary guides for East African hunters and adventurers. He created a TV series in 1995 called Wild Things for Paramount. Passing on the fables, true tales, and insider knowledge of these last reserves...

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#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Goldberg broke into television writing with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire. Since then, his TV writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop shows (Hunter, The Glades), martial arts (Martial Law), whodunits (Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe), the occult (She-Wolf of...

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Diana has lived in several US states, the north of England and the Isle of Man. While she is currently in the US, she still misses the stunning scenery, wonderful people and fascinating history that make the Isle of Man so unique. Diana writes the best-selling Aunt Bessie Mysteries, and her new series, the Isle of Man...

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When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with 14 hardcovers and 16 paperbacks reaching the number-one position. His books are published in 38 languages and he has...

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Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, the co-author team behind the #1 Bestselling TIER ONE series and other stand alone thrillers. Jeffrey Wilson has at one time worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot, a diving instructor, a Naval Officer, and a Vascular and Trauma Surgeon. He also served two tours in...

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Jim Heskett writes award-winning mystery-thrillers (and as J.E. Heskett, post-apocalyptic thrillers), seasoned with a dash of snark. He fell in love with writing at the age of fourteen with a copy of Stephen King’s The Shining. Poetry became his first outlet for teen angst, then later some screenplays, and eventually, short fiction and long fiction...

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Amazon Best-Selling Author Vince Milam has lived all over the world, traipsing through the Amazon, Congo, and Papua New Guinea – all the while capturing sights, experiences, and personalities that are incorporated into his writing. You can see those results in his best-selling Case Lee series of novels. In this episode of the podcast, we...

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James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video games, radio and television. His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former...

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Michael Lindley is a #1 Amazon author for “Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense” as well as “Historical Mysteries” with his debut novel “The EmmaLee Affairs.” Most recently, his “Lies We Never See” reached #1 for “Historical Thrillers” and “Psychological Thrillers”. His subsequent novels follow this genre in the continuing “Troubled Waters Series”. His stories feature love...

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Mike Omer is the author of the Zoe Bentley Mystery Series and the Glenmore Park Mystery Series. In the past, he’s been a journalist, and a game developer. He lives with his wife and daughter in Israel. Mike loves to write about true-to-life people who are perpetrators or victims of crimes. During the interview we...

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Mike Gomes is an Amazon #1 best selling author who loves writing fast paced, action packed thrillers. The desire to create fun, page turning books that lets readers slip away into another world is what drives him to write. Mike lives with his wife and four children in Massachusetts. During the interview we discuss his...

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DP Lyle, MD is the Amazon #1 and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction including the Samantha Cody, Dub Walker, and Jake Longly thriller series and the Royal Pains hit TV show media tie-in novels. He is the creator and host of the podcast series...

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Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold over 2,000,000 books and My Sister’s Grave has been optioned for television series development. He is also the author of the best-selling David Sloane series, The Jury Master, Wrongful...

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Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Thorny Rose, Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries—over twenty titles across four fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns! Book reviewers and readers alike rave about how Lauren Carr seamlessly crosses genres to include mystery, suspense, crime fiction, police procedurals,...

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William L. Myers, Jr. is the No. 6 best-selling author for Amazon Kindle in 2017 for his debut novel, A Criminal Defense. That was the first in what has become the Philadelphia Legal Series. Born into a blue-collar family in Pennsylvania, Bill inherited a work-ethic that propelled him through college and into the Ivy League...

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Peter May is an author, screenwriter, and creator of television drama. Peter May was born in Glasgow but now lives in France where his books have won several awards and he has a large following of fans. He was recently introduced at the Lyon Festival of Crime writing as “The most French of all Scotsmen.”...

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Gavin Reese grew up in the rural American Southwest, eventually moving to the Big City with his family, and considers both New Mexico and Arizona home. Gavin is a police officer. Since completing the police academy and field training, Gavin has enjoyed incredible success, and a lot of luck, in acquiring a diverse range of...

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James Scott Bell is a winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for his novel, Romeo’s Way, and the #1 bestselling author of books on the craft of writing. Jim attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied writing with Raymond Carver. He graduated with honors from the University of Southern California law...

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Bob Mayer is a NY Times Bestselling author. He’s had over 75 books published and sold over 5 million, including the #1 series Area 51, The Green Berets, Atlantis and the Time Patrol. He was born in the Bronx, New York. Graduated from West Point and served as an officer in the 1st Cavalry Division. Bob...

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Michael Lister grew up in a small town in North Florida near the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River. Captivated by story since childhood, Michael has a love for language and narrative inspired by the Southern storytelling tradition that captured his imagination and became such a source of meaning and inspiration. He holds undergraduate...

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Ellison Cooper has a Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA, with a background in archaeology, cultural neuroscience, ancient religion, colonialism, and human rights. She has conducted fieldwork in Central America, West Africa, Micronesia, and Western Europe. She has worked as a murder investigator in Washington DC, and is a certified K9 Search and Rescue Federal Disaster...

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Joseph Reid is the debut author of Takeoff, the first adventure of air marshal-turned-investigator Seth Walker. The son of a navy helicopter pilot, Reid chased great white sharks as a marine biologist before becoming a patent lawyer who litigates multi-million-dollar cases for high-tech companies. He has flown millions of miles on commercial aircraft and has...

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Matthew Betley writes the bestselling Logan West Thrillers. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended St. Xavier High School and then Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated with a B.A. in psychology and minors in political science and sociology. Upon graduation, he worked in corporate America for five years in Cincinnati before...

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Thomas Greanias is a New York Times bestselling novelist and one of the world’s leading authors of adventure. His books in print have been translated into multiple languages and sold in 200 nations around the globe. A former journalist and on-air correspondent for NBC, Greanias infuses his international thrillers with provocative issues ripped from tomorrow’s headlines (bio). Connect with...

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David Berens is a professional tennis player, teaching folks how to play tennis as well writing crime thrillers. He has traveled up and down the East Coast and has been a tourist at every beach from Key West to Pawleys Island. Today he calls Knoxville, Tennessee home, where he lives with his family. A constant...

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David Banner is an author living in the Coastal Southeast. He has always loved the beach and the open water is a movie lover and spends way too much time playing catch on the sand with his Airedale terrier. He is the author of the Dangerous Waters thriller series set in the Gulf Coast of Florida....

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Philip Donlay has been a flight instructor, flown a private jet for a Saudi prince, and for twenty-eight years flew a corporate jet for a Fortune 500 company. Licensed to fly six different jets and having logged nearly 14,000 hours, his travels have taken him to over forty countries on five continents. No longer flying,...

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Dr. Lucinda Berry is a trauma psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. She uses her clinical experience to create disturbing psychological thrillers, blurring the lines between fiction and nonfiction. She enjoys taking her readers on a journey through the dark recesses of the human psyche. If she’s not chasing her eight-year-old son around, you...

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Steven Konkoly is the USA Today bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas. His canon of THRILLERS includes: the FRACTURED STATE trilogy, a “24-style,” near future conspiracy series set in the southwest United States; the BLACK FLAGGED books, a gritty, no-holds-barred covert operations, and espionage saga; and THE PERSEID COLLAPSE series, a tense, thriller...

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Sean Ellis has authored and co-authored more than two dozen action-adventure novels, including the Nick Kismet adventures, the Jack Sigler/Chess Team series with Jeremy Robinson, and the Jade Ihara adventures with David Wood. He served with the Army National Guard in Afghanistan and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources Policy from Oregon...

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Carolyn L. Dean has been a published author for a while now, under different names and genres. She is the author of bestselling (over 400,000 copies downloaded) Ravenwood Cove Cozy Mystery series set in a small coastal town in Oregon. Carolyn is married with kids and lives on the West Coast of the US, where she owns...

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John C. Dalglish was born in Toronto, Canada and moved to the United States when he was a teenager and lives in Southwest Missouri. He is the author of three different series that he refers to as Clean Suspense novels which have sold over 150,000 copies. He and his wife, who designs his book covers,...

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Hank Early spent much of his youth in the mountains of North Georgia, but he never held a snake or got struck by lightning. These days, he lives in central Alabama with his wife and two kids. He writes crime, watches too much basketball, and rarely sleeps. Although the author did not begin writing until...

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Shannon Baker is the author of Stripped Bare, the first in the Kate Fox Mystery series (Tor/Forge, September 2016) and the upcoming Dark Signal, the second in the series (Tor/Forge, October 2017). Set in rural Nebraska cattle country. Now living in Tucson, Baker spent 20 years in the Nebraska Sandhills, where cattle outnumber people by...

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Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D. Tess Gerritsen’s books have been published in forty countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold...

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Kyle Mills is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen political thrillers. He recently took over writing the Mitch Rapp series for the late Vince Flynn and has also contributed books to a series created by Robert Ludlum. Kyle initially found inspiration from his father, the former director of Interpol, and still draws...

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Alexandra Amor writes mysteries that are about love, friendship and the search for truth. At the moment, she is working on the next book in her Town Called Horse cozy mystery series. Alexandra began her writing career with an award-winning memoir about ten years she spent in a cult in the 1990s. She has written...

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Nick is an action-adventure thriller novelist, who writes the types of books he likes to read. That means you won’t find anything boring, slow, or sappy in his stories. People have described his work as “airplane books,” but he just sees that as a compliment. Nick was born in Connecticut, grew up in Texas, and...

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Rachel Sinclair is the bestselling author of the Harper Ross Legal Thrillers. She was a criminal defense attorney for 11 years, so she doesn’t scare easily. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City school of law in 1998 and worked for the Public Defender’s Office for several years before striking out on her own....

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J.F.Penn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the ARKANE supernatural thrillers and London Psychic crime series. Her books weave together ancient artifacts, relics of power, international locations and adventure at the edges of faith. Joanna lives in Bath, England and enjoys a nice G&T. Connect with J.F. Penn: Website |...

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Tara Ellis is an Amazon best-selling author, lives in a small, rural town in Washington State set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She enjoys the quiet lifestyle with her two kids and several dogs. Tara was a firefighter/EMT, and worked in the medical field for many years, before committing herself to writing novels. She is...

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E.H. Reinhard was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He now resides in sunny Tampa, Florida. When not putting pen to paper, or keys to keyboard, writing thrillers, he is an avid fisherman. So naturally, moving to the fishing capital of the world was a good fit. He writes fast-paced, action-packed thrillers including The Cases of Lieutenant...

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Timothy Hallinan is the award-winning author of twenty highly praised novels. He currently writes two series: the Poke Rafferty Bangkok Thrillers, focused on a Thailand-based American travel writer and his cross-cultural family, the fourth volume of which, The Queen of Patpong, was nominated for the Edgar award; and the Junior Bender Mysteries, about a Los...

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William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than forty books, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series of novels, the historical novel Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness, currently being adapted into a miniseries, a book of poetry (The White Bird), and a series of books on fiction writing. In addition, Bernhardt founded the...

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Cindy Brown has been a theater geek (musician, actor, director, producer, and playwright) since her first professional gig at age 14. Cindy is now a full-time writer, she’s lucky enough to have garnered several awards (including 3rd place in the 2013 international Words With Jam First Page Competition, judged by Sue Grafton!) and her first novel,...

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International Bestselling Author Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in the midst of Perestroika. There, he led prominent multinational medical companies. He eventually landed...

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CeeCee James is the author of the Angel Lake Mystery series which is a bestselling cozy mystery series. CeeCee is a wife, mom of four kids and pet mom to two mini-dachshunds. She’s always loved to read and always had her nose in a book– getting her into trouble at school when she’d sneak it...

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John Hindmarsh writes thrillers and science fiction (sometimes with crossover). John is originally from Australia and now lives in the High Sierra region of California where he is writing full time. During our chat, we discuss writer’s that have influenced John over the years. His writing process. The difference (yet similarities) of writing thrillers compared...

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Libby Fischer Hellmann is from Washington, D.C. and now lives in Chicago, where she writes page-turning thrillers. She has published thirteen novels and twenty short stories. She has written suspense mysteries, historical, PI novels, amateur sleuth, police procedurals, and even a cozy mystery. During this interview, we talk about her series, The Ellie Foreman Mysteries...

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A.C. Fuller is the author of media thrillers. A.C. has a journalism background, having worked as a journalist in New York and he was an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU. A.C. now lives in the Pacific Northwest with his family where he teaches English and writes the Alex Vane Media Thriller series. Connect with...

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Carmen Amato is the author of romantic thrillers and the Detective Emilia Cruz mystery series set in Acapulco, Mexico. Carmen is originally from New York and was educated there as well as in Virginia and Paris, France, while her experiences in Mexico and Central America inspire many of her books. Connect with Carmen Amato: Website...

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Seeley James is the author of the popular Sabel Security thrillers featuring a world-class athlete turned private security badass, Pia Sabel. His love of creativity began at an early age, growing up at Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture in Arizona and Wisconsin. He carried his imagination first into a successful career in sales and...

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Jon Mills is originally from Hampshire, England but now resides in Canada. Jon Mills is the bestselling author of the Undisclosed trilogy, The Promise, Dark Tide and The Debt Collector thriller Series. In this episode, we chat about Jon’s books, his schedule and writing process which allows him to publish monthly! Connect with Jon Mills:...

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Murray McDonald is a U.K. based author that writes fast-paced action thrillers with a plot that keeps readers enthralled and intrigued right up until the shocking ending. In this episode, we discuss writing thrillers in different genres like YA, Dystopian, and even erotic thrillers and a lot more. Connect with Murray McDonald: Website | Facebook...

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Adam Croft is a British author, principally of crime fiction, best known for the Kempston Hardwick mysteries and Knight & Culverhouse thrillers as well as his 2015 worldwide bestselling psychological thriller HER LAST TOMORROW, which became one of the biggest-selling books of the year with over 150,000 copies sold in the first five months. His...

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John W. Mefford is an Amazon Top 50 Author, #2 bestselling author on Barnes and Noble, and a Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner. John was a former journalist and an IT professional for twenty plus years, before writing his debut novel. Since 2009, he’s written and published over a dozen action-packed, suspenseful bestselling novels. During...

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Dawn Lee McKenna is the author of the bestselling The Forgotten Coast Florida series. The series, set in Apalachicola, FL, is a noirish suspense series, dripping with atmosphere and flawed, human, witty characters. Dawn Lee McKenna was born and raised in Florida and now live in Tennessee. The South is as much a main character...

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John Ellsworth was a trial lawyer with forty years of trial experience who now writes page-turning bestselling legal thrillers. He has published over 15 novels in thirty months and his books have been download over one million times since then. John is self-published and enjoys the freedom of choosing his own release schedule, selecting covers,...

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Dan Ames is an international bestselling author and winner of the Independent Book Award for Crime Fiction. His books have been #1 on mystery and crime fiction bestseller lists in both the United States and abroad. Dan Ames has published over ten novels in several series and genres. Two of his popular thriller series includes the John...

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Jake Needham is the International Bestselling Author of the Inspector Samuel Tay and Jack Shepherd Series. He is a lawyer by education and was a screen and television writer who began writing crime novels when he realized he really didn’t like movies and television very much. Jake Needham has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, and...

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John D. Brown is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. He lives with his wife and four daughters in rural Utah. He is the author of the Frank Shaw Thriller Series. He started writing Science Fiction Fantasy which was published by Tor. In this episode of the podcast, John shares his sketching and drafting process and...

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David Chill was born and raised in New York City. After receiving his undergraduate degree from SUNY-Oswego, he moved to Los Angeles where he earned a Masters degree from the University of Southern California. David Chill is the author of the popular mystery series of novels featuring Private Investigator Burnside. He presently lives in Los...

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Carolyn Arnold is a bestselling and award-winning author, as well as a speaker, teacher, and inspirational mentor. She has four continuing fiction series–Detective Madison Knight, Brandon Fisher FBI, McKinley Mysteries, and Matthew Connor Adventures–and has written nearly thirty books. Her genre diversity offers her readers everything from cozy to hard-boiled mysteries, and thrillers to action...

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Danielle Girard is the bestselling author of nine previous novels, including Chasing Darkness , as well as The Rookie Club series and the new Dr. Schwartzman series. Tthe first book in that series, Exhume, is currently the #2 bestselling book in Amazon’s Kindle Store! Way to go, Danielle! Her books have won the Barry Award and the RT...

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  Wayne Stinnett is the bestselling author of over ten books in the Jesse McDermitt Caribbean Adventure Series and the Charity Styles Caribbean Thriller Series. Wayne has also written a non-fiction book (From Blue Collar to No Collar) about his amazing success story of going from truck driver to a bestselling thriller and adventure novelist....

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Meet Author Sue Coletta Sue Coletta is a member of Sisters In Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. Sue writes crime thrillers about serial killers. Her website and murder blog is a treasure trove for crime writers. Connect with Sue Coletta Website | Facebook | Twitter Sue Coletta Books For Writers Join...

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Meet Author Jennifer Chase Jennifer Chase is an award-winning and bestselling author of crime thrillers including the Emily Stone thrillers. Jennifer holds a bachelors degree in police forensics and a masters degree in criminology and certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling and is a proud member of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists. Connect with...

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Meet Author Kevin Tumlinson Kevin Tumlinson is an author, blogger, and podcast host. He’s published sci-fi and non-fiction books and he’s now writing thrillers. The Coelho Medallion is the first book in his new thriller series. Connect with Kevin Tumlinson Website | Facebook | Twitter | Wordslinger Podcast Kevin Tumlinson’s Books Kevin also published a non-fiction...

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Meet Author Jeff Menapace A native of the Philadelphia area, Jeff has published multiple works in both fiction and non-fiction. In 2011 he was the recipient of the Red Adept Reviews Indie Award for Horror. Jeff’s debut novel Bad Games was a #1 bestseller that spawned two acclaimed sequels, and now all three books in...

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MTTA #20: John Hegenberger Born and raised in the heart of the heartland, Columbus, Ohio, John Hegenberger is the author of the Stan Wade thrillers. Connect with John Hegenberger Website | Facebook | Twitter John Hegenberger Books

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MTTA #19: Renée Pawlish Renée Pawlish is the award-winning author of the bestselling Reed Ferguson mystery series. Connect with Renée Pawlish Website | Facebook | Twitter Renée Pawlish Books

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MTTA #18: Russell Blake Meet Russell Blake Featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Times, Huffington Post, and The Chicago Tribune, Russell Blake is The NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of dozens of novels, including the JET and Assassin series. Russell has written over 40 novels since 2011 and co-authored two novels with...

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Meet Ethan Jones Ethan Jones is a lawyer living in Canada and the author of the wildly popular Justin Hall spy thriller series, which has eight books so far. The first book in this series, Arctic Wargame, reached the Amazon’s Top 10 Best Sellers lists in 2015. Ethan has also started a new spy series:...

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  Bestselling author, James P. Sumner has been an avid reader from a young age, James has always had a passion for writing. In July 2013, he began work on his first novel and eventually published his debut thriller, True Conviction, himself on Amazon, where it has been downloaded over 100,000 times. I Connect with...

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Allie K. Adams is the USA Today bestselling author of several award-winning stories, including the TREX romantic suspense series and the Murph and Grace thrillers. Connect with Allie K. Adams Website | Facebook | Twitter Allie K. Adam’s Books Show Notes & Links Author influences: Linda Lael Miller, Tess Gerritsen  

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Meet Author Cheryl Bradshaw   Cheryl Bradshaw is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author writing in the genres of mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, and paranormal suspense. Stranger in Town (Sloane Monroe mystery series book 4) was a Shamus Award finalist, and I Have a Secret (Sloane Monroe mystery series #3) won best thriller...

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Meet Author Stacy Green Stacy Green is the author of the Lucy Kendall thriller series and the Delta Crossroads mystery trilogy. All Good Deeds (Lucy Kendall #1) won a bronze medal for mystery and thriller at the 2015 IPPY Awards. Tin God (Delta Crossroads #1) was runner-up for best mystery/thriller at the 2013 Kindle Book Awards. Stacy has...

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Meet Author Percival Constantine Percival Constantine was born and raised in the Chicagoland area and now lives in Japan. He has been working in publishing since 2005 in various capacities—author, editor, formatter, letterer—and he’s written books, short stories, comics, and more. You can find him on his website, Facebook, and Twitter. Percival Constantine’s Books Author...

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Subscribe on iTunes  Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe by Email  H.N. Wake has only recently arrived to fiction after living in Africa, Asia and Europe for 20 years where she worked primarily with the US Government. She writes political espionage thrillers. H.N. Wake’s Website | Facebook | Twitter       H.N. Wake’s Books   Resource Links...

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Subscribe on iTunes  Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe by Email M.P. McDonald writes the Mark Taylor and C.J. Sheridan series. You can find her on Facebook and on her website. M.P. McDonald’s Books

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Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, Ohio. He has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books and to the Western online anthology, Elbow Creek. Show Notes Influences:...

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Toni Dwiggins is a third-generation Californian. What she likes most about her state is that one can go from the ocean to the mountains in one day, with a lunch stop in the desert. She likes it so much she has chosen those settings for her forensic geology books. These stories feature a young woman...

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Episode 07 of MTTA features author, R.S. Guthrie. R.S. Guthrie grew up in Iowa and Wyoming and now lives in Colorado with his wife, three young Australian Shepherds, and a Chihuahua who thinks she is a 40-pound Aussie. He has been writing fiction, essays, short stories, and lyrics since college. (Full Bio Here). Show Notes...

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Bobby Nash writes a little bit of everything including thriller novels, comic books, short prose, graphic novels, screenplays, media tie-ins, and more. Bobby was named Best Author in the 2013 Pulp Ark Awards. Between writing deadlines, Bobby is an actor and extra in movies and television, including appearances in Deviant Pictures’ Fat Chance, FOX’s The Following,...

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In this episode of Meet the Thriller Author you’ll meet, Stacy Claflin. Stacy writes Thrillers as well as in other genres like Paranormal Romance. You can find show notes, links, and more info about Stacy’s books below. Show Notes/Links Stacy Claflin’s website | Twitter | Facebook Stacy Claflin’s Books

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Meet C.E. Martin In this episode of Meet the Thriller Author, we meet C.E.. Martin. C.E. draws upon his experience as a USAF veteran and seventeen years as a criminal investigator to write pulp-styled thrillers. Show Notes/Links C.E. Martin’s website | Twitter | Facebook C.E. Martin’s Books

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  In this episode of Meet the Thriller Author we meet J.P. Choquette who is a mystery and suspense author from Vermont.               Hangouts on Air Video Version of Podcast Show Notes Follow J.P. on Twitter and Facebook J.P. Choquette Books J.P.’s non-fiction book for writers:

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Kevin Lee Swaim studied creative writing with David Foster Wallace at Illinois State University. Aside from writing thrillers, Kevin is currently the Subject Matter Expert for Intrusion Prevention Systems for a Fortune 50 insurance company located in the Midwest of the United States.   Show Notes and Links Kevin Lee Swaim Website. Twitter. Facebook Kevin...

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  The very first episode of the Meet the Thriller Author podcast features an interview with Diane Patterson, author of the Drusilla Thorne mystery thrillers. Diane Patterson’s Website Diane on Twitter and Facebook National Novel Writing Month Diane’s Books in the Drusilla Throne Series:

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