Åsa Larsson was a tax lawyer but is now a bestselling/award-winning Swedish crime-fiction writer. Larsson is mostly known for her Rebecka Martinson series, about a lawyer who returns to her hometown in Kiruna and gets involved in the search for a killer. Her book Sun Storm (aka The Savage Altar) was adapted as a movie,…
American writer from Kansas City, Julie Garwood is known for her romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres – more than 20 of them being New York Times Bestsellers. Encouraged by a professor, Julie started to write and published her first historical novel, Gentle Warrior, in 1985. The next one quickly followed. She…
Born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut, Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She began her career in 1991 as a writer for children’s television shows, before she began to write children’s books. Her debut book, Gregor the Overlander is published in 2003. She has been named one of Time magazine’s…
Andrea Penrose is an American author of historical mysteries set in Regency England. She began writing at age five, specifically, Western stories illustrated with drawings of horses and cowboys. She moved on to the Regency period after reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. She has been fascinated by this time since then. She majored in…
Beverly Cleary (1916-2021) was an award-winning American writer of children’s and young adult fiction. In fact, she was one of America’s most successful authors, selling more than 90 million copies of her books worldwide during her long career–that began in 1950 after working as a librarian for a decade. It was during her time as…
A former journalist for United Press International and CNN, Daniel Silva is today mostly known for his work as a bestselling writer of thriller and espionage novels. Silva always wanted to write, but it was not after a good decade working as a journalist that he tried his hand at writing a novel. His first…
American writer Tana French is known as “the First Lady of Irish Crime,” it may sound strange when you say it like this, but the author of the Dublin Murder Squad has lived in Dublin since 1990-and even attended Trinity College Dublin (where she trained to become a professional actor). Even if, since her first…
Canadian novelist, Susanna Kearsley used to work as a museum curator before making a name for herself as a writer – she also used the pen name Emma Cole to write thrillers. However, Susanna Kearsley is mostly known for writing historical fiction and mysteries and found her biggest success with The Winter Sea, The Firebird,…
Born in England, Ian James Ross studied painting before turning his attention to another art form. He has been writing historical fiction for over a decade. It was a year teaching English in Italy that led him to explore the ruins of the Roman Empire, and ultimately to write his six-book ‘Twilight of Empire’ series–set…
Luanne Rice is an award-winning best-selling American novelist from New Britain, Connecticut, who’s writing since her teen years – her first short story was published in American Girl when she was fifteen. Angels All Over Town, her debut novel, was published in 1985. Since then, she published more than 30 more books about love and…
British author Nicci French is not one person, but a couple. It is the pseudonym of husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Together, they write psychological thrillers like the Frieda Klein series. They started writing a decade before psychotherapist Frieda Klein started to work with the police to solve cases. Most of Nicci French’s…
Born in 1950, Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery and crime writer. He always wanted to become a writer and wrote his first story at age eleven. But before embracing that path, Deaver worked as a journalist, folk singer, and then an attorney. Now, he’s, of course, a successful author, with his books sold in…
