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3.8 Stars (117 Ratings)
Writing mysteries-thrillers with high stakes and heart. Author of SHORE LODGE, a high-stakes psychological thriller, THE THIEVES, CABIN EIGHT, THE MOTHER’S THREAT, SECRETS AT THE. . .
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Amy Shojai is a nationally known authority on pet care and behavior, a certified animal behavior consultant, a spokesperson for the pet products industry, and the author of 35+. . .
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S.F. Baumgartner crafts fast-paced Christian suspense thrillers, weaving tales of complex characters, secretive operatives, and relentless agents. Her gripping storytelling has. . .
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E. J. Simon’s passion has always been writing, despite the many years he’s spent in corporate leadership positions, including multiple CEO roles with major companies. He holds an. . .
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KJ Sutherland spent several years in Europe as an attorney for the US military, first as an officer and later as a civilian. In addition to practicing international law, she’s. . .
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4.5 Stars (2130 Ratings)
Award-winning author, Kathleen Donnelly is a handler for a private narcotics K-9 detection company. She enjoys using her experience to craft realism into her fictional stories.. . .
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4.3 Stars (143 Ratings)
Stephen Bentley is an award-winning author. Of his first true crime novel, UNDERCOVER, screenwriter and novelist, writer of ‘Julie’ BBC Drama, Rob Gittins, said, “The fascinating. . .
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Meet Puja:
International Development Consultant. Global Citizen.
AUTHOR.
Born into a family of acclaimed Indian architects, Puja Guha traveled with her parents as they worked on. . .
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R.M. Demeester, from Saskatchewan, loves being a mom, reading books, and writing. She’s been writing since she was very young. Today, she’s known for her stories in women’s. . .
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4.5 Stars (14 Ratings)
Born and raised in Texas, Donna resided in the Gulf Coast region until she married and moved to Oklahoma many years ago. Aspirations to write began when she was fourteen, but she. . .
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4.4 Stars (3078 Ratings)
Andrew Clawson writes thriller and adventure novels that make readers think and keep them turning pages long into the night, blurring the line between fact and fiction.
He is the. . .
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4.3 Stars (2335 Ratings)
Award-winning author, J.T. Bishop, is a writer of mystery thrillers with a supernatural edge. Growing up, she read books by Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, and Dean Koontz,. . .
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4.2 Stars (38 Ratings)
Jen Craven is the author of upmarket women’s fiction, where one decision changes everything. The author of two historical fiction novels, “Best Years of your Life” is her debut. . .
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Author of the USA TODAY bestselling series: The JACK REACHER Cases.
Dan Ames is an international bestselling novelist and winner of the Independent Book Award for Crime. . .
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4.4 Stars (59 Ratings)
Regina was raised in Syracuse, New York, where her new suspense novel THE REVENGE PARADOX is set. She spent many happy years exploring the back roads of the Adirondack mountain. . .
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4.2 Stars (2650 Ratings)
DV Berkom is the USA Today bestselling author of action-packed, riveting adventure and crime thrillers. Known for creating resilient, kick-ass female characters and page-turning. . .
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4.5 Stars (5553 Ratings)
One of the wildest work environments imaginable, Emergency Rooms give staff the joy and satisfaction of saving lives as well as the low of pronouncing death just minutes apart.. . .
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4.3 Stars (98 Ratings)
Sharon Dukett is an award-winning author who writes thrillers and memoir. Her memoir, No Rules, won a gold medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in Memoirs. . .
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4.4 Stars (7280 Ratings)
I love my job. Even on the worst day when I can’t seem to put together a coherent sentence, I’m grateful for this magnificent opportunity to tell stories and share them with. . .
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4.5 Stars (3652 Ratings)
Veronica, an Amazon Chart-Topping author and Florida native, has spent the past two decades embracing the beauty of Georgia’s scenic coast, where she realized her lifelong dream of. . .
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Writing mysteries-thrillers with high stakes and heart. Author of SHORE LODGE, a high-stakes psychological thriller, THE THIEVES, CABIN EIGHT, THE MOTHER’S THREAT, SECRETS AT THE CAFE, UNDER JACKSON BRIDGE, MISSING MAN, BY MIDNIGHT and THE WINTER STORM. My business books offer pointers on investor relations and crisis communications. The “Boating with Buddy” books feature photographs and comments from a funny dog. I live in a windy part of the Pacific Northwest with my husband and our rescue dog.
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Amy Shojai is a nationally known authority on pet care and behavior, a certified animal behavior consultant, a spokesperson for the pet products industry, and the author of 35+ nonfiction pet books. She also writes THRILLERS WITH BITE! which includes the pet-centric thrillers LOST AND FOUND, HIDE AND SEEK, SHOW AND TELL, FIGHT OR FLIGHT, HIT AND RU, and WIN OR LOSE. In her other life, she’s a published and produced playwright of musical theater productions (some including pet characters!).
Amy addresses a wide range of fun-to-serious issues in her work, covering dog and cat training, behavior, natural and allopathic health care, nutrition, first aid, aging pets, “the bond” and cutting-edge medical topics. In her nonfiction books, she empowers pet lovers by providing the information they need to make informed decisions for their cats and dogs. She specializes in translating “medicalese” into easily understood jargon-free language, making it accessible to all pet lovers. Oh, and she loves bling-icity!
Her work has been honored with over three dozen writing awards and she is a two-time recipient of the “Friskies Writer of the Year” award. Her articles currently appear in the Herald Democrat newspaper, on Chewy.com, FearFreePets.com, and Readers Digest among others. She’s published several thousand articles and columns during her career. Amy has presented a twice-monthly “Pet Talk” segment at KXII-CBS, hosted the weekly “Pet Peeves” at PetLifeRadio.com, and is an expert on Animal Planet DOGS 101 and CATS 101. Sometimes she has time to sleep.
Amy has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and in The Wall Street Journal, USA Weekend, The New York Times, Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, Family Circle, Woman’s World, and many other leading newspapers and magazines. She has also been a featured pet care expert on Animal Planet Dogs 101, Cats 101, Petsburgh USA/Disney Channel program, Good Day New York, Fox News: Pet News, NBC Today Show, WGN-Chicago “Pet Central” and “Animal Planet Radio” and many others.
She is an active member of the International Thriller Writers, Sisters In Crime, and Alliance of Independent Authors. Amy is a certified member of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, a founder and Past President of the Cat Writers’ Association, member of the Dog Writers Association of America, and Past President and Honorary Lifetime Member of Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. She frequently speaks to groups on a variety of pet-related and writing issues, lectures at veterinary and writer conferences, and conducts training and behavior demonstrations around the country.
She and her husband live with Karma-Kat the feline ruler, and Shadow-Pup the delinquent. They, along with the enduring inspiration of Siamese wannabe Seren-Kitty, Magical-Dawg the German Shepherd, and Bravo-Dawg the tripawd Bullmastiff continue to inspire her work. Find more information about her work at https://shojai.com and follow her Bling, Bitches & Blood Blog at https://amyshojai.com
S.F. Baumgartner crafts fast-paced Christian suspense thrillers, weaving tales of complex characters, secretive operatives, and relentless agents. Her gripping storytelling has earned acclaim, with Living Secrets—Book 1 of her Mirror Estate series—named a Top Pick in the thriller category at Killer Nashville, 2024. When she’s not plotting her next twist, she’s binge-watching crime TV shows, like NCIS or playing with her cats. Fans of James Patterson’s style, especially those who appreciate short, punchy chapters, will find much to love in her work.
E. J. Simon’s passion has always been writing, despite the many years he’s spent in corporate leadership positions, including multiple CEO roles with major companies. He holds an M.A. in Corporate and Political Communications from Fairfield University and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of South Carolina, and in 2013 published the first book in his Michael Nicholas series, Death Never Sleeps, which became a Kindle bestseller. He’s a member of the Author’s Guild, The Mystery Writers Of America and the North Carolina Writer’s Network. New York born and bred, he and his family now live in North Carolina, where he follows the Durham Bulls along with the New York Yankees.
To find out more visit: www.ejsimon.com
KJ Sutherland spent several years in Europe as an attorney for the US military, first as an officer and later as a civilian. In addition to practicing international law, she’s prosecuted and defended service members in multiple countries throughout Europe and the UK.
KJ currently lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. Here she can be found weaving her European experiences into thrillers about tenacious lawyers, who invariably find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. She enjoys adventures at home and abroad with her family, including a deer-headed Chihuahua who has ten times the personality his size. Find out more about her here: https://www.kjsutherlandbooks.com
Award-winning author, Kathleen Donnelly is a handler for a private narcotics K-9 detection company. She enjoys using her experience to craft realism into her fictional stories. Kathleen loves the beauty of the mountains, which inspired her choice of setting for her series. She lives near the Colorado foothills with her husband and her four-legged co-workers. Visit Kathleen on her website at www.kathleendonnelly.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/AuthorKathleenDonnelly/, follow her on Twitter @KatK9writer or find her on Instagram @authorkathleendonnelly.
Stephen Bentley is an award-winning author. Of his first true crime novel, UNDERCOVER, screenwriter and novelist, writer of ‘Julie’ BBC Drama, Rob Gittins, said, “The fascinating and extraordinary inside story from the man who was actually there.”
Of his later fiction works, British crime author, Pat MacDonald said, “I knew when I read the author’s first book ‘Undercover: Operation Julie’ although non-fiction that he could make the transition to writing fiction; I was right. He has an ease of language that lends itself to storytelling; he tells it as if he was there in the plot and why shouldn’t he having been an undercover cop in the real world? Not that Steve Regan is meant to be him, but having the experience means he can do whatever he wants with his fictional characters, and they will always be believable.”
Like some other authors, his life experience is broad and unconventional. He spent 30 years in the legal system, first as a detective for 15 years then as barrister plying his trade as “a wig for hire” in London and the English provinces. He was a pioneering undercover cop on Operation Julie and as a barrister defended in trials involving murder, rape, drug importation, other serious crimes and defended soldiers at courts-martial.
He worked in a warehouse. Rode a big motorbike as a London courier. He drove big articulated trucks and taught how to drive them. He also worked as a hospital porter twice. He drove chilled delivery vans in London in the 1990s to fund his law degree and bar school studies. He spent the last two years of his working life driving plant and operating heavy filtration machinery for Europe’s largest water company. His work mates soon recognised his advocacy skills and elected him as their shop steward.
He has now written over twenty books. Two of them have been optioned and in development; one as a TV drama series, and one as a drama doc.
You can find Stephen at stephenbentley dot info
His wife is a better person than him in all regards and is a source of support in his goal of entertaining readers. She has also made him a better person.
Meet Puja:
International Development Consultant. Global Citizen.
AUTHOR.
Born into a family of acclaimed Indian architects, Puja Guha traveled with her parents as they worked on projects around the world. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Puja completed her Master’s degree in public policy at Sciences Po and the London School of Economics.
Today, she works as an independent consultant on international development programs – primarily in Africa and South Asia – traveling to some of the most economically-challenged countries in the world. Leveraging her scholarship, her ability to speak five languages, and her earnest goal of engendering global economic progress, she continues to learn about, support and embrace new countries.
Along her journey, she’s been inspired by politics, culture and setting to write the Ahriman Legacy series, in which she takes readers along with her as her imagination enhances her experiences.
Puja has lived in Kuwait, Toronto, Paris, London, and several American cities including New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. She now lives in the Denver area.
Learn more about Puja at pujaguha.com.
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R.M. Demeester, from Saskatchewan, loves being a mom, reading books, and writing. She’s been writing since she was very young. Today, she’s known for her stories in women’s fiction, romantic suspense, and thrillers. She also has a rescue dog named Gainer, a chocolate lab. Her newest book, “Chained by Conviction”, comes out in September 2023.
Born and raised in Texas, Donna resided in the Gulf Coast region until she married and moved to Oklahoma many years ago. Aspirations to write began when she was fourteen, but she didn’t pursue her dream until her children left for college. It took her several years thereafter to conform to her newfound freedom and launch her writing career. Donna is now living out her dream. Aside from God and her family, she wouldn’t spend her time any other way except in front of a computer screen hammering away at another story.
Donna writes romantic suspense, literary fiction, psychological thrillers, crime, Christian devotionals, and is working on a family saga. She’s written devotionals and short stories for an online magazine and was often featured as a guest blogger.
Donna and her husband have been married for 50 years. They have two grown sons, ten grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. They reside in Oklahoma.
Andrew Clawson writes thriller and adventure novels that make readers think and keep them turning pages long into the night, blurring the line between fact and fiction.
He is the Amazon best-selling author of multiple series, including the Parker Chase thrillers, all of which have been #1 Amazon category best-sellers. His other series include the TURN novels and the Harry Fox adventures.
Andrew’s books are action-packed journeys blending fact and fiction, often taking a wild ride through the past to reveal mysteries and conspiracies that threaten the world today in stories where the action never stops and each page turns faster than the last.
Andrew lives in Pittsburgh with his family and their rescued black cat, a wonderful little guy who thinks he’s a dog. To learn more, please visit his website at andrewclawson.com.
Award-winning author, J.T. Bishop, is a writer of mystery thrillers with a supernatural edge. Growing up, she read books by Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, and Dean Koontz, devoured every episode of The X-files, and watched plenty of TV shows with great partnerships that left her wanting more. She loves tangled relationships, unexpected twists and turns, heart-stopping love stories and the complications that come with all the above. Throw in a little supernatural fun and she’s hooked. Her evil plan is to hook you, too.
She’s the author of The Red-Line Trilogy and its sister series, The Fletcher Family Saga, which features touches of urban fantasy, light sci-fi, and paranormal romance. She’s also happily writing mystery thrillers featuring two charismatic detectives who may occasionally encounter a supernatural villain or two, and a crossover series which follows the exploits of a gifted, but troubled, paranormal P.I. and his spunky sister.
All the above keeps her busy, but in her spare time, she loves a good movie, tasty food, an unfortunate sugar addiction, and traveling.
Get caught up with J.T. and her writing adventures at www.jtbishopauthor.com. And while you’re there, get a short story prelude to her first book for free, plus a novella and a few other offerings. Enjoy!
Jen Craven is the author of upmarket women’s fiction, where one decision changes everything. The author of two historical fiction novels, “Best Years of your Life” is her debut contemporary work. She writes from northwestern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her family.
Author of the USA TODAY bestselling series: The JACK REACHER Cases.
Dan Ames is an international bestselling novelist and winner of the Independent Book Award for Crime Fiction.
His popular series THE JACK REACHER Cases earned a spot on the USA TODAY bestseller lists and now features seven novels in the series.
You can learn more at AuthorDanAmes.com
Regina was raised in Syracuse, New York, where her new suspense novel THE REVENGE PARADOX is set. She spent many happy years exploring the back roads of the Adirondack mountain region, which inspired her small-town revenge thriller, DOWN A BAD ROAD. She recently traded the snowy northern winters for the tropical breezes of the Sunshine State. Her favorite pastimes are kayaking among the mangroves, strolling the sandy beaches, and teaching tricks to her crafty little corgi, Pekoe.
DV Berkom is the USA Today bestselling author of action-packed, riveting adventure and crime thrillers. Known for creating resilient, kick-ass female characters and page-turning plots, her love of the genre stems from a lifelong addiction to reading spy novels, action/adventure stories, and thrillers.
A restless soul and adventurer at heart, she spent years moving around the US and traveling to exotic locales before she wrote her first novel and was hooked. More than a dozen books later, she now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Mark, and several imaginary characters who like to tell her what to do. Her most recent books include the Claire Whitcomb Westerns: Retribution, Gunslinger and Legend, and Leine Basso thrillers Fatal Objective, A Plague of Traitors, Shadow of the Jaguar, Dakota Burn, and Absolution. DV’s currently hard at work on her next thriller.
For more information, visit her website at www.dvberkom.com. To be the first to hear about new releases and subscriber-only offers, go to: bit.ly/DVB_RL. For film and TV inquiries: dvberkomSR[at]gmail.com
More books by D.V. (in reading order):
The Kate Jones Thriller Series:
The Kate Jones Thriller Series, Vol. 1 (Bad Spirits, Dead of Winter, Death Rites, Touring for Death)
Cruising for Death
Yucatán Dead
A One Way Ticket to Dead
Vigilante Dead
(Read the complete series- available as one set in KU)
The Leine Basso Thriller Series:
A Killing Truth
Serial Date
Bad Traffick
The Body Market
Cargo
The Last Deception
Dark Return
Absolution
Dakota Burn
Shadow of the Jaguar
A Plague of Traitors
Fatal Objective
The Claire Whitcomb Western Series:
Retribution
Gunslinger
Legend
One of the wildest work environments imaginable, Emergency Rooms give staff the joy and satisfaction of saving lives as well as the low of pronouncing death just minutes apart. Each emergency room runs on adrenaline-fueled heroes working 24/7/365 to help patients. After thirty years in the field of medicine as a pediatric emergency physician, Gary Gerlacher has a lifetime of stories to share from his experiences. His books seek to capture the chaos and energy of life in the emergency room, while seeking justice for traumatized patients. They feature a potent mix of emotion, action, and humor, as Doc and Banshee, his K9 sidekick, travel the country to meet new challenges in each work environment. Gary is a serial entrepreneur in the healthcare space and lives in Dallas with his wife and two rescue dogs. He is currently working on opening a competitive cheer gym with his daughters (thoughts and prayers please). Last Patient of the Night, Faulty Bloodline, Sin City Treachery and Deadly Equation are currently available on Amazon. Book five, Terminal Exchanges, will be released in October, 2025.
Sharon Dukett is an award-winning author who writes thrillers and memoir. Her memoir, No Rules, won a gold medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in Memoirs (Historical/Legacy), and was a finalist in several others.
She worked in information technology as a consultant, programmer and project manager in the private sector, and a deputy director in government, where she learned about the infinite possibilities of what could go wrong: a useful insight for thriller writing.
Sharon lives in Connecticut with her husband, within a short driving distance of her children and grandchildren.
I love my job. Even on the worst day when I can’t seem to put together a coherent sentence, I’m grateful for this magnificent opportunity to tell stories and share them with others. My mother says I was saying I wanted to be a writer when I was seven. I know that seems incredible, but she’s my mom, so we have to believe her. I never missed an opportunity to visit the library, which was blissfully near my home, and the librarians there took a great interest in this nerdy, shy, bespectacled kid who kept reappearing almost every day. They encouraged me to read widely and to read the best of everything. That is exactly what I did and have continued to do all my life.
I love telling stories. I’m super-excited about this new six-book series featuring lawyer Kenzi Rivera, which starts with Splitsville. I started this after I completed another six-book series with lawyer Daniel Pike. His first book is The Last Chance Lawyer and the last is Final Verdict. Several years back I wrote a series of legal thrillers featuring Ben Kincaid, then took some time off to write poetry and young adult and nonfiction books on writing (the Red Sneaker series). It’s fun to be back in the fictional courtroom, with a fresh take and new characters addressing some of the contemporary issues facing our world today.
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William Bernhardt (The Last Chance Lawyer) is the author of over fifty books, including the bestselling Daniel Pike and Kenzi Rivera novels, the historical novel Challengers of the Dust, two books of poetry, and the ten Red Sneaker books on fiction writing. In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writers Center to mentor aspiring writers. The Center hosts an annual writers conference (WriterCon), small-group writing retreats, a newsletter, and a bi-weekly podcast. More than forty of Bernhardt’s students have subsequently published with major houses. He is also the owner of Balkan Press, which publishes poetry and fiction as well as the literary journal Conclave. In 2019, Bernhardt received the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Center for the Book.
In addition to his novels and poetry, Bernhardt has written plays, a musical (book and score), humor, children stories, biography, and puzzles. He has edited two anthologies (Legal Briefs and Natural Suspect) as fundraisers for The Nature Conservancy and the Children’s Legal Defense Fund. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man.” In his spare time, he has enjoyed surfing, digging for dinosaurs, trekking through the Himalayas, paragliding, scuba diving, caving, zip-lining over the canopy of the Costa Rican rain forest, and jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet. In 2013, he became a Jeopardy! champion, winning over $20,000. In 2017, when Bernhardt delivered the keynote address at the San Francisco Writers Conference, chairman Michael Larsen noted that in addition to penning novels, Bernhardt can “write a sonnet, play a sonata, plant a garden, try a lawsuit, teach a class, cook a gourmet meal, beat you at Scrabble, and work the New York Times crossword in under five minutes.”
Veronica, an Amazon Chart-Topping author and Florida native, has spent the past two decades embracing the beauty of Georgia’s scenic coast, where she realized her lifelong dream of writing mystery and suspense. Known for her gripping tales that navigate the shadowy depths of Savannah’s haunting allure, Veronica pulls readers into a labyrinth of mystery and suspense, making it impossible to put down her books until the last twist is revealed.
In her downtime, Veronica enjoys a fulfilling life with her husband, her steadfast partner in love and adventure, and their lively Australian Labradoodle, Fiddler.