Peter Kirkland
Peter Kirkland grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina. As a kid, Peter loved history and learning about his area. One year in school, he was given a project to research a few South Carolina law cases and the precedents they set and their effect on people’s lives.
This research project lit the flame for his passion for law and creating a more equal justice system since. Soon after this, Peter began reading legal thrillers voraciously and enjoyed the legal maneuvering and justice found within. As an adult he has continued researching the law and understanding the system and its effects on individuals. A few years ago, he decided to try writing his own legal thriller.
Now a full-time writer, he uses his research, passion for justice, and real case
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Awards
Edgar Award, 1980, Best First Novel for The Lasko Tangent
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, International Award, 1995 for Degree of Guilt
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Being a great writer first requires being a great reader. Lance loves taut legal thrillers, heart-pounding crime fiction, and captivating murder mysteries. His literary inspirations include Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Michael Connelly, Erle Stanley Gardner, Ross Macdonald, Walker Percy, Agatha Christie, and, of course, Harper Lee.
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Robin James
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In 2019, Ethan took the leap and started writing his first thriller under a pen name, pulling from his experiences on the road as a journalist and his extensive research of current events and military life. Ethan loves to delve into contemporary issues ripped from the headlines.
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His debut series, The Nick Justin Chronicles, blends explosive courtroom drama with dark criminal intrigue, set in the sun-drenched shadows of Tampa–St. Petersburg, Florida. At the center is Nick Justin—a tough, principled attorney navigating a justice system rife with power plays, coverups, and betrayal.
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A lifelong New Yorker, Marti Green moved to The Villages, FL nine years ago, and now lives there with her husband, Lenny, and cat, Howie. She has two adult sons and five grandchildren.
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Tammy Euliano
By day, Tammy Euliano, MD is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Florida where she cares for obstetric patients, teaches medical students and residents, performs research, and invents cool stuff. She's been honored with numerous teaching awards, more than 100,000 views of her YouTube teaching videos, and was featured in a calendar of women inventors (copies available wherever you buy your out-of-date planners).
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By night, she plays games with her family (now remotely), cuddles her dogs, reads, and writes medical thrillers.
Vacations are for exploring our amazing world. She has dragged her family of five to all the major US national parks, Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Costa Rica, the Caribbean, the Galapa -
Neil Turner
Neil Turner is the author of the gripping and highly-acclaimed Tony Valenti Thrillers series. If you like underdogs battling for survival—John Lescroart’s Dismas Hardy, Greg Iles’s Penn Cage, Michael Connelly’s Micky Haller, or John Grisham’s Jake Brigance—it’s time to start reading Tony Valenti.
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K.J. Sutherland
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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 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.
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Charles Hirsch
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Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia
Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia is the best-selling and award-winning author of Growing Up Between Stops on the A-train: A Memoir (Winner! 2020 Kindle Book Awards Reader's Choice • Winner! 2020 New York City Big Book Award • Winner! 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards). Jennifer has been a professional writer for over 25 years with credits in radio, TV, print, and film including writing a hit song in Japan and editing a newspaper in Jersey City. Jennifer holds a B.A. in English from Thomas Edison State University and is completing graduate work at Harvard. She currently resides near New York City.
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Joe Cargile
Although born in Alabama, Cargile spent much of his childhood in places beyond the South, a region he recognizes as one that’s greatly influenced him as a writer. Still, it’s his years spent living in the Midwest, and abroad, that Cargile credits as being the most formative in his early life. He later returned to Alabama for undergraduate studies at Auburn University, then moved to Florida in pursuit of a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law.
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In 2015, Cargile sat for the bar exam in Georgia, then was admitted to the practice of law soon after. He joined a small law firm in South Georgia, where he began taking on criminal defense work and general litigation matters. After several years, and despite a growing caseload, Cargile began w -
Al Macy
Al Macy writes because he has stories to tell. In school he was the class clown and always the first volunteer for show and tell. His teachers would say “Al has a lot of imagination.” Then they'd roll their eyes.
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But he put his storytelling on the back burner until he retired and wrote a blog about his efforts to improve his piano sight-reading. That's when his love of storytelling burbled up to the surface, along with quirky words like “burble.”
He had even more fun writing his second book, Drive, Ride, Repeat, but was bummed by non-fiction's need to stick to “the truth” (yucko). From then on it was fiction all the way, with a good dose of his science background burbling to the surface.
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Eric Ferguson
Born in Texas and raised in Los Angeles, Eric Ferguson graduated with honors from Chapman University School of Law in 2004. Since 2005 he has been a deputy district attorney in southern California, focused primarily on appellate and post-conviction litigation, including murder cases. Prior to attending law school, he worked as a freelance writer, editor and journalist. "Cold Record" is his first novel.
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Mark M. Bello
Mark M. Bello is an attorney and award-winning author. A Michigan native, Mark received his B.A. in English Literature from Oakland University and his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
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After his career handling high-profile legal cases, Mark now provides readers with a close-up view of the social justice battlefront. Each book in the Zachary Blake Betrayal Series is a ripped-from-the-headlines novel inspired by Bello’s legal experiences and his concern for our current sociopolitical landscape.
Mark is married and has four adult children and ten grandchildren. In addition to his novels, Mark writes articles and blogs about safety, justice, and fairness in the legal system. His work can be found in numerous print and online publicati -
Janice Graham
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Janice Graham was raised in Kansas and obtained her M.A. in French literature before pursuing graduate film studies at USC and English literature at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. Her screenplay Until September, a romantic comedy situated in Paris, was picked up by MGM and made into a film starring Karen Allen and Thierry Lhermitte. Her first novel, Firebird, became a New York Times and international bestseller.
After a series of contemporary women’s fiction, she turned to historical fiction--The Tailor's Daughter set in Victorian England, and Romancing Miss Bronte, written as Juliet Gael, a highly acclaimed novel about Charlotte Brontë. Red Lily, a Cold War era historical fiction, is due out in spring 2025. She divides h -
Richard A. Danzig
Richard A. Danzig is an attorney, artist, entrepreneur and author. He practiced law in New York for over forty years and has represented many prominent clients. He is the founder in New York of the American Paralegal Institute, We The People, a legal document preparation company, and The Law Stores. Richard is a juried member of the Spanish Village Artist collective in San Diego, California and his artwork has been shown in galleries in the Northeast and California. Richard published his first novel “Facts Are Stubborn Things” in 2023 and his second novel “Punch Line” in 2024. His new book “The Collectors” will be published on October 1, 2025. You can find out more at Richard’s website: richardadanzigauthor.com and see his artwork at richar
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T.J. Jones
T.J.Jones is a Minnesota Author with a growing number of novels in the Mystery, Romance, and Fantasy genres. He write character-driven stories with humor and heart. He is also a fan of happy endings!
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Dan Petrosini
Dan is a USA Today and Amazon best seller author, who wrote his first story at the age of ten and enjoys telling stories and jokes.
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Dan gets his story ideas by exploring the question; What if?
In almost every situation he finds himself in, Dan starts exploring what if this or that happened? What if this person died, was hurt, or did something unusual or illegal?
Dan’s non-stop mind spin provides him with plenty of material to weave into interesting stories.
A fan of books and films that have twists and are difficult to predict, Dan crafts his stories to prevent the reader from guessing correctly. He writes each and every day, forcing the words out when necessary and has written over twenty novels to date. It’s not a matter of wanting to write, -
Brooke Forsythe
Born and raised in Montana, Brooke is a first-time published author who also works as a nurse and a mindset coach. Her passion is to change the mental health crisis by sharing her personal story, so other souls can resonate, and not be afraid to communicate their battles. She wants people to be inspired to seek help and know that their journey matters.
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John Hardy Bell
A proud Colorado native and Sherlock Holmes fanatic, John currently lives in Denver with his wife and son. His stories feature cops and robbers, FBI agents, and serial killers. But beyond the archetypes, he writes about people. "There is darkness in the most heroic among us, and good in the most reviled. My job as a novelist is to not only tell an entertaining story but also to cultivate the truth of the characters who drive that story." His Grisham & Sullivan Murder Mystery Series introduces two exciting heroines to the genre, FBI Agent Camille Grisham, and Major Crimes Detective Chloe Sullivan.
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Michael Waddington
Michael Waddington is a criminal defense lawyer and best-selling author who defends cases in military courts worldwide. He has been reported on and quoted by hundreds of major media sources worldwide. He has provided consultation services to CNN Investigative Reports, 60 Minutes, Katie Couric, ABC's "Nightline," the BBC, German Public Television, CNN, CBS, the Golden Globe-winning TV series "The Good Wife," and various other international media outlets.
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He appeared in a major CNN documentary, "Killings at the Canal" and some of his cases have been the subject of books and movies. These include the Academy Award-winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side," the 2019 feature film, "The Kill Team," (and the 2013 documentary by the same name), th -
Manning Wolfe
MANNING WOLFE, an award-winning author and attorney, writes cinematic-style, smart, fast-paced thrillers and crime fiction. Manning was recently featured on Oxygen TV’s: Accident, Suicide, or Murder, and has spoken at major book festivals around the world.
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* Manning’s legal thriller series features Austin attorney Merit Bridges, including Dollar Signs, Music Notes, Green Fees, and Chinese Wall.
* Manning’s new Proxy Legal Thrillers Series features Houston attorney Quinton Bell, including Dead By Proxy, Hunted By Proxy, and Alive By Proxy.
* Manning is co-author of Killer Set: Drop the Mic, and twelve additional Bullet Books Speed Reads.
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Charles L. Allen
Charles Livingstone Allen (1913 – 2005) was an American ordained United Methodist minister.
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He was the former pastor of First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. The author of over 30 books, he was a featured columnist with the Atlanta Constitution from 1948 to 1960, and with the Houston Chronicle from 1960 to 1983. -
James H. Lewis
JAMES H LEWIS is the author of ten novels. Eight are mysteries. Belonging is a family drama, while The Quadrant Conspiracy is a historical novel set in WW2 Canada.
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His latest book, Dead Lines, is the third in his Lydia Barnwell series of Pittsburgh-based police procedurals. It grew out of the Chief Novak trilogy.
Lewis is a former journalist, public media executive and fundraising professional, and consultant to the nonprofit community. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is a member of Mystery Writers of America, PennWriters, Sister in Crime, and The Author's Guild. -
Robert I. Katz
Robert I. Katz attended Columbia College and Northwestern University Medical School, and is on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His first novel, Edward Maret was published by Willowgate in 2001 and won the ASA Literary Prize that year.
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Michael Devereaux
Author of Suspense Thrillers - Psychological, Domestic, Crime - all with women protagonists. And perhaps a touch of romance that may or may not turn deadly.
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