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…
Joseph Edward Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer born in Lancaster. He studied psychology and worked at a television company making tea before taking up a career as a freelance film editor. It was during that time that Joe Abercrombie thought again about writing — he tried while at University but it didn’t go well….
Jodi Taylor is an English writer of fantasy-historical and romance novels, known for The Chronicles of St Mary’s series, about a group of historians who investigate major historical events. Jodi Taylor worked for almost 20 years for North Yorkshire County Council, occupying different positions like Facilities Manager for the Library Service. She self-published her first…
An American scholar and novelist, Deborah Harkness is best known as the author of the All Souls Trilogy. She also is an executive producer on the television series, A Discovery of Witches, based on her trilogy. Harkness is a professor of history at the University of Southern California who has been the recipient of multiple…
British author, Dilly Court-who is also writing under the pseudonym of Lily Baxter-began her career writing scripts for television commercials before turning her attention to historical fiction and family saga novels. Now, with more than 30 books published, Dilly Court is well known for her bestselling novels like The Button Box, The Orphan’s Dream, and…
The writer behind the Alex Delaware series and husband of Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist and Edgar Award-winning author published since 1985. He used to be a practicing psychologist but he quits his private practice in 1990 to write full-time. Since then, he produced more than 50 novels, most of them are…
Ragnar Jonasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the bestselling Dark Iceland series, the Hulda Trilogy, and standalone crime fiction. Ragnar is a lawyer who works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at the University of Reykjavik who started in the crime fiction genre by translating 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. How…
Stuart Woods was a prolific author who was best known for his first novel Chiefs and his series of novels focus on Stone Barrington, a former NYPD detective turned lawyer. He died on July 22, 2022, at the age of 84. After having moved to London, still working in advertising, at the end of the…
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa, born on 17 August 1963, in London, a British crime novelist. Before, she worked in a library, for a magazine, and then as a publicity assistant and Editorial Director for children’s books at HarperCollins. She began writing about Italy, families, and identity, before being inspired…
Does James Patterson need an introduction? His books have sold more than 400 million copies, and he was the first person to sell 1 million e-books. As he was working in advertising, he started to write books and published his first novel, “The Thomas Berryman Number”, in 1976. Since then, he wrote more than 200…
Born in 1970, Santa Montefiore (née Palmer-Tomkinson) is the daughter of Charles Palmer-Tomkinson, formerly High Sheriff of Hampshire, and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson (née Dawson), of Anglo-Argentine background. She grew up on a farm in Hampshire and was educated at Sherborne School for Girls. Santa Montefiore has always wanted to be a writer. Before publishing books, she…
Karen Rose is a bestselling award-winning romantic suspense author from Baltimore, Maryland. She used to work as a chemical engineer for a large consumer goods company and started writing for fun. Her debut suspense novel was published in July 2003 and wrote since then more than twenty novels. Even if Rose’s books are set in…
