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A.C. Gaughen
A.C. Gaughen is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels. She is best known for the Scarlet Trilogy,...
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A.D. Scott
A.D. Scott is a Scottish mystery novelist who spent her early years in the Highlands, a landscape that would later...
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A.G. Riddle
A.G. Riddle is an American author of sci-fi thriller novels, best known for The Origin Mystery series. Before dedicating himself...
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A.J. Finn
A.J. Finn—the pen name of former publishing editor Dan Mallory—burst onto the thriller scene in 2018 with The Woman in...
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A.J. Kohler
A.J. Kohler is an American author who writes novels. He came to writing later in life after a varied career...
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A.J. Pearce
A.J. Pearce is a British novelist who writes historical fiction set during World War II, and she came to her...
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A.J. Steiger
A.J. Steiger writes young adult fiction that blends the familiar with the fantastical, drawing from her lifelong experience in the...
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A.K. Larkwood
A.K. Larkwood is a British author who writes science fiction and fantasy novels that blend epic fantasy with space opera...
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A.M. Stuart
A.M. Stuart writes historical mysteries and historical fiction. She was born in Kenya and moved to Australia at age ten....
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Aaron Stander
Aaron Stander is an American novelist known for crafting mystery and thriller novels, including the Ray Elkins series. Prior to...
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Aaron Starmer
Aaron Starmer is an American author of young adult and middle grade novels. Before dedicating himself to writing full-time, he...
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Aaron Zenz
Aaron Zenz is a children's book author and illustrator whose work has earned the 2013 Keystone to Reading Award for...
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Abbi Waxman
Abbi Waxman is a novelist who writes women’s fiction. She was born in England, the daughter of two copywriters, one...
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Abbie Frost
Abbie Frost writes psychological thrillers and is the pseudonym of author Chris Curran, who chose the name to explore darker...
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Abbie Greaves
Abbie Greaves is an English author of women's fiction who spent her school days inventing elaborate Weekend Review stories that...
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Abdi Nazemian
Abdi Nazemian, a screenwriter and author, received Best Debut at the Lambda Literary Awards for his first novel, The Walk-In...
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Abigail Dean
Abigail Dean is a British author who writes psychological suspense, formerly working as a bookseller and a lawyer before turning...
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Adam Brookes
Adam Brookes is a British author who writes spy thrillers and narrative nonfiction, drawing on nearly two decades as a...
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay is a British author and screenwriter, formerly a doctor. He is best known for This Is Going to...
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Adam Mitzner
Adam Mitzner is an American legal thriller writer who made his debut in 2011 with A Conflict of Interest, a...
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Adam O’Fallon Price
Adam O'Fallon Price is an American author whose Edgar Award-nominated novel The Hotel Neversink established him as a writer who...
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Adam Sternbergh
Adam Sternbergh is a Canadian-American author of future-noir thrillers. He made his debut in 2014 with Shovel Ready, a novel...
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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is a Nigerian novelist, essayist, journalist, and humorist whose fiction blends sharp social commentary with a storyteller's...
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Adib Khorram
Adib Khorram is an Iranian-American author, graphic designer, and tea enthusiast who writes young adult novels. His fiction blends humor,...
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Adrian Phoenix
Adrian Phoenix is an American writer of urban and paranormal fantasy who brings a genuine fascination with the supernatural to...
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Adriana Mather
Adriana Mather is the author of the How to Hang a Witch and Killing November series of books. Her family...
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Adrienne Young
Adrienne Young is an American author known for her New York Times books, Sky in the Deep and The Girl...
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Aidan Conway
Aidan Conway is an English crime writer whose debut novel, A Known Evil, introduced Detective Michael Rossi and earned him...
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Aiden Thomas
Aiden Thomas is an American author who writes contemporary fantasy for young adults, centering trans and Latinx characters in stories...
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Aimee Agresti
Aimee Agresti is an American author who writes women's fiction, young adult fantasy, and coming-of-age novels. She made her debut...
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Aimee Molloy
Aimee Molloy is an American author who has written both nonfiction and psychological thrillers, bringing her skill for exploring hidden...
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Alan Hlad
Alan Hlad is an American author of historical fiction novels set during World War I and II. He made his...
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Alan Parks
Alan Parks is a Scottish author who writes crime thrillers. For over twenty years, he worked in the music industry...
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Albert Ashforth
Albert Ashforth is an American author of spy thrillers. His first book, the non-fiction Thomas Henry Huxley, was released in...
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Alechia Dow
Alechia Dow is a young adult and middle grade author who made her debut in 2020 with The Sound of...
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Alex Dahl
Alex Dahl is a half-American, half-Norwegian author of suspenseful novels. She pursued a B.A. in Russian and German Linguistics, followed...
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Alex Finlay
Alex Finlay writes thrillers that have appeared on national bestseller lists and been translated into twenty-five languages. His debut novel,...
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Alex George
Alex George is an English author, bookseller, literary festival director, and lawyer. He studied law at Oxford University and practiced...
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Alex Gilvarry
Alex Gilvarry is an American novelist who made his debut in 2012 with From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant,...
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Alex Lake
Alex Lake is a British novelist who writes psychological thrillers. After Anna, her debut novel published in 2015, became a...
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Alex Marwood
Alex Marwood is a British author of psychological thrillers, whose debut novel The Wicked Girls won the prestigious Edgar Award....
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Alex Michaelides
Alex Michaelides is a screenwriter and author who writes psychological thrillers. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge University,...
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Alex North
Alex North is a British crime thriller novelist who debuted under this pen name in 2019 with The Whisper Man,...
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Alex Robins
Alex Robins is a fantasy novelist who left Norwich, England, at twelve and landed in Nantes, France, where the Loire...
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Alexa Martin
Alexa Martin is an American author best known for her contemporary romance book series, The Playbook. She is a stay-at-home...
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Alexandra Christo
Imagine a world where characters wield sharper wit than their creator—and deadlier instincts, too. That's the realm Alexandra Christo builds,...
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Alexia Gordon
Alexia Gordon writes cozy mysteries that blend music, medicine, and the supernatural, beginning with Murder in G Major, the first...
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Alexis Coe
Alexis Coe is a historian and biographer who strips away myth to get at the human truth behind American icons....
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Ali Brandon
Ali Brandon is the pen name of American author Diane A.S. Stuckart, who writes cozy mystery novels. She introduced the...
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Alice Feeney
Alice Feeney is a British author who writes psychological thrillers built on unreliable narrators, layered secrets, and endings that reframe...
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