Meet The Thriller Author

Marcia Clark is a bestselling author and a criminal lawyer who began her career in law as a criminal defense attorney and went on to become a prosecutor in the L.A. District Attorney’s Office in 1981. She spent ten years in the Special Trials Unit, where she handled a number of high profile cases, including...

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Goldberg is back on the podcast to chat about his latest release FAKE TRUTH (the third book in his Ian Ludlow series). Lee Goldberg writes books and television shows (which we talk about during the interview). His mother wanted him to be a doctor, and his grandfather wanted...

I’m honored to have Dean Koontz back on the podcast (you can catch my first interview with Dean Koontz here). When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. His books are published in 38 languages and he has sold over 500 million...

Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 21 thrillers, including the ORPHAN X series, and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been published in 32 languages. Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many...

As a professor of Human Anatomy & Physiology, Bill Brewer learned the value of stories to keep his students engaged. Storytelling is a passion of his, which extends beyond the lecture hall. He enjoys writing because a character’s traits and personality grow as the story develops. Readers develop a connection with the character and are...

Matt Coyle is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him the simple art of murder by Raymond Chandler. He graduated with a degree in English from University of California at Santa Barbara. His foray into...

Peter Riva has spent many months over thirty years traveling throughout Africa and Europe. Much of his time was spent with the legendary guides for East African hunters and adventurers. He created a TV series in 1995 called Wild Things for Paramount. Passing on the fables, true tales, and insider knowledge of these last reserves...

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Goldberg broke into television writing with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire. Since then, his TV writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop shows (Hunter, The Glades), martial arts (Martial Law), whodunits (Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe), the occult (She-Wolf of...

Diana has lived in several US states, the north of England and the Isle of Man. While she is currently in the US, she still misses the stunning scenery, wonderful people and fascinating history that make the Isle of Man so unique. Diana writes the best-selling Aunt Bessie Mysteries, and her new series, the Isle of Man...

When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with 14 hardcovers and 16 paperbacks reaching the number-one position. His books are published in 38 languages and he has...

Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, the co-author team behind the #1 Bestselling TIER ONE series and other stand alone thrillers. Jeffrey Wilson has at one time worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot, a diving instructor, a Naval Officer, and a Vascular and Trauma Surgeon. He also served two tours in...

Jim Heskett writes award-winning mystery-thrillers (and as J.E. Heskett, post-apocalyptic thrillers), seasoned with a dash of snark. He fell in love with writing at the age of fourteen with a copy of Stephen King’s The Shining. Poetry became his first outlet for teen angst, then later some screenplays, and eventually, short fiction and long fiction...

Amazon Best-Selling Author Vince Milam has lived all over the world, traipsing through the Amazon, Congo, and Papua New Guinea – all the while capturing sights, experiences, and personalities that are incorporated into his writing. You can see those results in his best-selling Case Lee series of novels. In this episode of the podcast, we...

James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video games, radio and television. His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former...

Michael Lindley is a #1 Amazon author for “Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense” as well as “Historical Mysteries” with his debut novel “The EmmaLee Affairs.” Most recently, his “Lies We Never See” reached #1 for “Historical Thrillers” and “Psychological Thrillers”. His subsequent novels follow this genre in the continuing “Troubled Waters Series”. His stories feature love...

Mike Omer is the author of the Zoe Bentley Mystery Series and the Glenmore Park Mystery Series. In the past, he’s been a journalist, and a game developer. He lives with his wife and daughter in Israel. Mike loves to write about true-to-life people who are perpetrators or victims of crimes. During the interview we...

Mike Gomes is an Amazon #1 best selling author who loves writing fast paced, action packed thrillers. The desire to create fun, page turning books that lets readers slip away into another world is what drives him to write. Mike lives with his wife and four children in Massachusetts. During the interview we discuss his...

DP Lyle, MD is the Amazon #1 and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction including the Samantha Cody, Dub Walker, and Jake Longly thriller series and the Royal Pains hit TV show media tie-in novels. He is the creator and host of the podcast series...

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold over 2,000,000 books and My Sister’s Grave has been optioned for television series development. He is also the author of the best-selling David Sloane series, The Jury Master, Wrongful...

Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Thorny Rose, Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries—over twenty titles across four fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns! Book reviewers and readers alike rave about how Lauren Carr seamlessly crosses genres to include mystery, suspense, crime fiction, police procedurals,...