A Good Thriller discussion

I visited the book site. Wow! I will have to put 'Delphian' on my reading list, which is already long. I also need to leave time for writing and normal day to day activities.
Oh my - so much to read- such a conflict of time.

As an author, I'm impressed with your credentials and humbled by your talent.

Cheers Tim.

Marianne Scott
author of Finding Ruby

Hello Sue:

Goodreads certainly has a pool of talent that I'm happy to connect with. I love that you come with such expertise. Will watch for your posts.

Marianne Scott
author Finding Ruby

Hey everyone! I'm an author too. Here's my updated bio:

Jared Garrett is the author of Beat, a YA futuristic thriller full of gadgets and twists; Lakhoni, a high-stakes revenge and rescue fantasy in a world reminiscent of Aztec culture; and The Seer, an urban fantasy/superhero origin story inspired by the Hebrew legend of the Thirty-Six. He also self-published Beyond the Cabin, a novelization of his childhood in a cult. Both Beat and Beyond the Cabin were Whitney Award nominees, and his story Song of the Wind, received honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest. In addition to writing, he’s spent fifteen years in adult education and is an accomplished public speaker and workshop leader, and has spent the last year leading training events around the world for Amazon.

Hello everyone, and thanks for the invite to the group!

I am a bibliophile, lexicomaniac, and wordsmith. The author of The Clear Angel Chronicles, a thrilling psychic detective series, The Hunters series which is for those who believe that vampire should be killed and not kissed, and The Hell School Series, which is a YA contemporary series about stalking.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone, and to find out about exciting new thrillers!

Writing in one form or another since he was eleven, Jordon Greene is the author of the Amazon Bestseller They'll Call It Treason. Starting with a short story competition in fifth grade in the North Carolina foothills Jordon really began to write seriously during his high school years. While these musings never turned into a quality full-length novel they did lay the groundwork for Jordon's entrance into the literary world in 2016 when he published his first novel.

Jordon attributes his love of reading to Michael Crichton′s Jurassic Park and The Lost World novels which he read a few years after the movies (which are nothing like the books) and then proceeded to read anything by Crichton he could get his hands on. He also enjoys anything by James Rollins, Marie Lu and James Alan Gardner. A bit of a Star Trek nerd, Jordon works as a web developer in Concord, North Carolina where he resides with his brother Jared and two cats, Shiloh and Data. Jordon is currently working on his second book, a dark psychological thriller called To Watch You Bleed.

I was born in Maffra, Victoria and grew up on a dairy farm at Invergordon, in the Goulburn Valley, Victoria, Australia. I was educated at Numurkah and Shepparton High Schools, and later at Latrobe University where I graduated with a degree in Philosophy and a graduate diploma in Computer Science.

I have always loved reading, especially science fiction, and fantasy, and anything with action in it.

By day I help define IT projects, by night I write high-octane, action packed thrillers set against an Urban Fantasy backdrop. If you like vampires as villains, conspiracies and schemes, thrills and suspense, and heroes with just enough super powers to make it interesting - then you may well enjoy my books.

W.M.J. Kreucher

I was born and raised on the west side of Detroit and worked for over thirty years in the automobile industry in the environmental field specializing in providing technical support on legislation and regulation, including clean fuels and vehicle fuel economy.

I have ghost written for Congressmen and Senators and have authored parts of legislation and regulation in these areas.

Now I am entering the next phase of my life as a fiction writer. I know what you are thinking: writing for politicians is fiction. At least now I am calling it what it is.

I have published six books plus two audio book narrated by a great actor.

Check it out.

Finally, my website is updated and I have a new blog.

http://www.michaeljgill.co.uk/

I am a pig-headed 'Type-Two' personality.
Last time I had a tryst with my creative side, a storyteller in me, was when I was in college. And then, Engineering happened, Job happened, life happened,
More honestly Money happened.
It's been eight years now.
And then those stories which used to scream in my head got subjugated with the time.
Only to be left as some squiggling in my notepad, and the rest in my head, gradually dying a slow death.

But then, marriage happened, and someone came in my life, and accidently saw me talking to myself.
And unfortunately, instead of crushing those stories in my head, she encouraged it.
And here I am now, after three years of doodling and eight months of serious writing, with my first fiction novel, Money Man (Part -1).
I know, some of you will be appalled, and some of you will be amazed, in equal measures.
But honestly, I am done keeping things just within my head.

My first novel is about Money and how money controls our life. In fact, how it restrained me from following my heart.
I didn't send it to any Indian publisher, because money is a global greed, and it has been written in a language, keeping an International audience in mind. Keeping people from all walks of life in mind, the people who were my clients, my employers, my friends, people who were part of my life, and people who with time just remained as my "Facebook friend." This book might give you a peek into how things are actually working around us. A peep into why people hate an establishment, why people want an 'outsider' to rule them? Why Narendra Modi won Indian election, and why Donald Trump won the election in the US?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MXJAFCD
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B01MXJAFCD

Marianne wrote: "Hi there 'Good Thrillers':
My name is Marianne Scott. I'm a Canadian author who has self published her first thriller novel, Finding Ruby. I'm so very excited to be a member of this discussion grou..."

All The best to you with your writing.

Nice to see Canadian authors in this group. Originally from the UK, I have lived in Nova Scotia 18 years.

Hi all! Here's my author bio. Looking forward to participating in the group.

J. B. Manas is a Philadelphia-based author of fiction and nonfiction. He is the author of the upcoming sci-fi thriller, Atticus, targeted for release in early 2017, and co-author of the The Kronos Interference, named to the “Best of 2012” by Kirkus Reviews, which gave the book a starred review, calling it “impressively original” and “[a] tour de force.”

His nonfiction books (written as Jerry Manas) on leadership lessons from history, science, and the arts have been translated into eight languages and course-adopted in universities worldwide. In addition to his writing, he consults internationally on organizational leadership and management.

Manas is an avid movie buff, pop culture maven, popular comic con speaker, art lover, world traveler, songwriter and guitarist, technology geek, wine connoisseur, and an armchair philosopher–all of which make their way into his writing at one time or another.

In the fiction arena, he enjoys writing fast-paced, sci-fi adventure thrillers infused with historical secrets, scientific discoveries, and exotic locales. A longtime fan of both Hitchcock and Spielberg, he has an affinity for balancing his stories with suspense, humor, and a touch of mystery.

Manas writes out of his home in suburban Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife, daughter, and dog Kayla, an American Dingo rescued from the swamps of South Carolina.

He is a member of the Authors’ Guild, International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO).

Welcome J.B

Hi Everyone!

If I'm not reading a good thriller, I like to be writing one. :)

Here is my bio:

Marie Sutro is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and a member of Sisters in Crime. A proponent of adult literacy, she volunteers with California Library Literacy Services, helping adults improve their reading and writing skills.

Her great-grandfather, grandfather and father all served in the San Francisco Police Department, the collective inspiration for her debut novel. She resides in Northern California and is currently at work on the next Kate Barnes story.

Hi guys,

Im not really one for talking about myself so I let my books do the talking and my fantastic reviewers.

'Another great book from Mercy ! I was devastated at some of the twist and turns... That's what a good book does ....you invest your emotions in it. A page turner certainly... I absolutely can't wait (for book three)'

4/5 for Equivocal

Susie


'I admire Aimee's character for all she's been through she still is strong. Some parts of this story made me sad. Ms. Cortez I can't wait to read book 3.'

4/5 for Equivocal

Dorel


'Its very well written and as I said its Dark, Twisted, emotional, heart wrentching , sad but I can't say I would have it end any other way.'

5/5 for Equivocal

Lori Hayes.


'The story was very unique and different and hell, very unexpected.'

4/5 for Messy and Shattered.

Evette


'This book is thought provoking, dark, and emotional. It touches on taboo subjects that are very much a harsh reality in the world. The author does not glorify or glamorize them, in my opinion. '

5/5 for Messy and Shattered

~ AprilMarie4u ~

My new book is out on 1st January

Mercy wrote: "Hi guys,

Im not really one for talking about myself so I let my books do the talking and my fantastic reviewers.

'Another great book from Mercy ! I was devastated at some of the twist and turns...."

Hi Mercy,

Love your cover art! :)

It's lovely to hear from everyone!

I'm Kristen Twardowski. Though I spent years working for libraries, studying the relationship between gender, archaeology, and imperialism in Germany, and playing with wolf puppies, I’ve finally found a professional home with a small publisher where I do marketing and data analysis. Though I never imagined I would end up exploring numbers and data, I adore my job. I’m also grateful that it leaves me enough free time to write.

I just released by debut novel, When We Go Missing. The book is a fast-paced psychological thriller that explores how women in America vanish and how society deals with those disappearances. It was a fascinating and horrifying realm to discover.

I look forward to exploring what everyone else has written!

Marie wrote: "Mercy wrote: "Hi guys,

Im not really one for talking about myself so I let my books do the talking and my fantastic reviewers.

'Another great book from Mercy ! I was devastated at some of the tw..."

Thank you! I can't take much credit most are from The Cover Collection. They are awesome and defo work a look for indie authors.

Hi everyone

My name is Christoffer Petersen - it's a pen name - and I live in Denmark. I graduated with a MA in Professional Writing from the UK, and am getting very close to indie publishing my first thriller - see more in the promo section.

I have written in other genres, but I am interested in developing my thriller writing skills as I find the genre has a lot of range. I enjoy writing strong female protagonists, but shy away from "supermodels with guns".

My inspiration? I love the Arkady Renko books by Martin Cruz Smith, and I am a fan of Peter Høeg's "Smilla".

Other fun stuff? I am married to a Dane and we lived and worked in Greenland for 7 years.

I look forward to contributing to the group.

Hello everybody,

My name is Tim Adler and I am a thriller author and journalist who works for The Daily Telegraph newspaper in London.

WH Smith, the UK equivalent of Hudson News, selected my latest book HOLD STILL for special promotion and it was a Book of the Year on the Addiction of Books blog.

To date my three indie thrillers have racked up 30,000 downloads and nearly half a million pages read on Kindle. My debut e-thriller SLOW BLEED went to number #1 in the US Amazon Kindle psychological thriller chart. Crime Book Club made it a Book of the Month. E-thriller.com made its follow-up SURROGATE a Book of the Month.

I am currently finishing thriller #4 DEAD ALREADY, about a man who wakes up in hospital to find a get well card from his three-year-old -- the only thing is that his daughter died 27 years ago. It's kind of a cross between DON'T LOOK NOW and SEXY BEAST.

As for authors who inspire me, I have become a huge fan of Blake Crouch recently, as well as another US author Noah Hawley. Other paragons who continue to inspire include Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.

Always looking to connect with other thriller writers and talk craft (or more likely grumble about money, which is what most authors end up doing when they get together).

Hi everybody. I know my profile says I've been a member for a while now, but I'm still struggling to get to grips with Goodreads, so please excuse any posts that probably will appear in the wrong place.

So far, I've written just the one book; but I've been writing for over 20 years, getting my first award when I was about five years old. My debut novel is called 'Marilyn' and it has had over 15,000 downloads so far. It took me almost 2 years to write, edit, and get it out there. I quit a job that I hated and have not looked back since.

Marilyn is based on a lot of my interests, a Hitchcockian style, The golden era of Hollywood, and thrillers.

I'm currently writing my second book, but I've decided that I need to promote the book that I've already written.

Glad to be here, but still learning the ropes.

Thank you all!

Hi All!
I am totally new to GoodReads so thought I would introduce myself. I write under the name Thomas Cape, and have just self-published by first thriller/mystery Double Elephant.
I'm now taking some time out from writing before I start the next book, which is giving me a chance to catch up on some reading!
I love thrillers, but generally prefer the slow-burning variety with more rounded characters.
I'm really glad to be part of this community and excited to see what happens next!

Hi

I am an engineer, researcher, movie producer, movie director, movie script writer and novel writer. First novel 'Body in the Freezer' is a crime mystery written by Naks-Cos.


Body in the Freezer

Hi everyone, Just a quick introduction. My name is Elena Hartwell and I write the Eddie Shoes Mystery Series. I live in North Bend, WA, with my hubby, one dog, three cats, and two horses. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you here and chatting about books and writing and reading. (also, www.elenahartwell.com)

Hello Everyone, My name is Michael Gill and I write a unique whisky/murder/mystery series. The Whisky Affair is the first in the series followed by the Shackleton Affair. Its different since I include whisky facts through my characters with my knowledge of being in the whisky industry for 20 years. My main character Raymond Armstrong is a retired MI 6 spy.
http://www.michaeljgill.co.uk/

Welcome to the group.

Please do join in all the threads.

Go to 10 Random facts, a popular thread.

Hello, I'm P K Davies, (Peter but better as PK because of other Peters). I have one book Getting Tyson, on Amazon with one other to follow very soon and two others awaiting polish. I'm an ex actor, librarian and journalist. I'm happy to look, listen and learn with you all. I need reviews and would enjoy reviewing. i like all sport, talking about anything; nothing is barred. Look forward to making friends.

http://www.penpowerwriting.com/

Evening all


I've worked for just short of thirty years in the financial industry and began to write for friends and family until I was talked into writing the first Alec Fincham novel, The Barcza Gambit was published in 2007.
All the books are military thrillers, which feature the lead character, Commander Alec Fincham of the Special Boat Service. Suppose they're more espionage based, with a military background, as that's what I'm interested in. That, and the research I undertake.

All the books relate to chess plays or pieces, the story often following the plays.

There are a number of books in the Alec Fincham series with more in the pipeline. They can be read as stand alone stories, but there are minor threads holding the series together.

Happy to have all you new members/authors

Please do join in our popular threads, let the readers/members get to know you.

More members will read your books as they get to know you.

As authors, I hope you are also a reader....

Thanks Sean. Yes, I am a reader and have started a Book blog on my website. I hope to be adding a lot to it from GR recommendations

Lots of great recommendations here...

Hi everyone. Happy to be here! No matter the genre - anything from John Steinbeck to Stan Lee - I love big stories, the kind that are so engrossing and so much fun you don’t realize how deeply they are reaching into your head and soul until later. I like to read stories like that and I write stories like that. I write real world thrillers with a supernatural element. Got a new one coming soon. It’s been selected for the Kindle Scout program. Very exciting, but that also means it’ll be a few weeks before it’s available.

From Tasmania a big thanks for being included in this group. I love the genre: Robinson, Rankin, Dexter, James, Robotham among a myriad of others. Such writers inspired me to pen my TasNoir series featuring D.I.Mahoney. If you haven't been to Tassie then take an armchair ride with my fiction.
Big Stake: Life's a Gamble
Dead Wood: Inspector Mahoney Returns
High Beam

I'm honored to join this group. Because of having MS, and my fingers being crippled, I'm unable to type much. I was able to publish a novel befoe my MS got too bad: I'M NO P. I. Alan Zacher

Hello, I’m so pleased to be part of this welcoming group!

I’m an avid reader of most genres, but I mainly read thrillers. I was brought up on Agatha Christie novels (I recently visited the area in Devon (UK) where she lived and worked), and I’m as comfortable reading cosy mysteries, as I am being scared silly by dark thrillers!

I live with my husband who’s a great soundboard, full of encouragement, and great ideas. Between us, we have met many unusual characters over the years, people with extraordinary lives from whom I can derive lots of inspiration!

My debut novel, Snatch Girl, was released on 21st April 2017. I had so much fun writing Snatch Girl, and I’m already outlining my next novel.

L.J. Kane
Snatch Girl

Authors,

Thanks for joining.

I hope as authors you are also readers, and here as a reader as well as an author. And join in the many great topics we have.

Including the Introduction page...

We support authors I believe very well, but I hope you will support the group, ask your friends to join, let members get to know you, they will read your books if they know you.

thanks

I’m Jake Remington and I loveJake Remington Thrillers – so much so that I decided to start writing them.
I recently self-published my first novel WRETCHED and am currently working on a sequel.
If you’d like a FREE PDF copy of WRETCHED for read & review please send me an e-mail.
Also, please drop me a note if you’d like to talk thrillers.

A brief preview of WRETCHED:

Bruce Mclean had a tragic youth, but middle aged now, he’s built a very good life for himself.
He thinks he’s won the lottery when he meets and starts seeing Tara – younger, beautiful, sexy, and athletic, she shares his love of vigorous outdoor activities.
Hard core mountain biking, skiing, climbing and wild sex with this alluring woman – things couldn’t be any better for Bruce.
That is until he realizes she is a psychopath – now things couldn’t be any worse….
(Caution: Novel contains some graphic sexual content.)

Hmm.... Any way we can jumpstart this group? The posts all look old. I haven't been gone for that long, and I like the idea of having a good thriller group. I write mysteries, thrillers, and sci-fi, but I also read in those genres and more, so I have a vested interest.
r/Steve Moore

For many years I preferred to roam around our beautiful planet, backpacking being always my first choice to find adventures, but ironically I didn’t start writing stories until life caught up with me when I started leading a settled life in a small house with an ordinary garden, dog, many other pets and a companion that was/is/and will forever be the rock of my world.

I love visiting all kinds of places without using the conventional ‘escorted tours’ offered by the tourist agents. In my opinion such type of holidays hardly allow people to really see where they are, and for many years I kept finding adventures and unique places on his own. My natural interest in nature, history, archeology and science made pretty much every place I visited exciting and fascinating. One day, I vividly remembers it was somewhere on the hills above Santiago de Compostela, I caught myself reading the umpteenth novel under the shade of a walnut tree on a hot summer day when a thought crossed my mind that if it was me, I would have written a different ending. This was when the grain in my mind of becoming a writer started growing.

The hunger for knowledge had me reading a countless number of books and encyclopedias since I was a small boy, and the fascinating habit of imagining stories behind people’s faces that I practiced since my student’s years were very helpful when I started taking my first steps in the exciting world of writing. I still has the habit of sitting down on a bench on a busy city street, just looking around at the expressions of the people rushing around. I make stories about what just happened to them or where they are heading to with ease, and in my opinion this is a great way for everyone wanting to become a fiction writer to check if they have the imagination needed. Somehow, this provided plenty of characters for my novels and with lots of stories about places and dubious historical facts in my head already, the two main ingredients to start writing were there. Even today, when I can’t focus on writing or struggles with my story, I simply go somewhere and watche the people around me inventing stories about their lives, troubles, challenges and happy moments, and this helps me to get back to my work quickly.

I'm also very fortunate that life and my strange way of travelling from early years brought me together with people from all layers of society and very quickly I realized that everyone has a dramatic and fascinating story to tell. After I finally settled in life, writing came naturally, and the fact that since my early years I grew up being read books by my mother, or reading myself, made the whole process very exciting and much more.

Writing helped me through many difficult times; everyone faces such periods in the rollercoaster called life, and I'm 100% sure that no matter who thinks what about my works, I'm happy that I wrote them as they helped me grow into a better person and helped me get back up, and continue forward after several storms had me pinned to the ground over the years.

Enjoying the simple joys of living is important for me, and I can often be seen sitting in my back garden with a glass of red wine and a board of cheese and grapes. Witnesses state that this is how I enjoy life these days, but the truth is that I enjoy life most when I closes myself in the dark room with a ridiculously huge mug of dark coffee and start scribbling words on sheets of paper. The other way of relaxation and mind-searching I'm known to practice is sitting hypnotized in front of one of the five aquariums in my home.

The backpacking years are hopefully not behind me either and with a big adventure planned for the summer of 2017 and another for the next winter, I'm likely to have many more stories to tell in the near future and I sincerely hope that there will be someone wanting to read them.

Hi

I am a UK based writer of crime noir novels with a debut story launching on Kindle on Aug 31, 2017.

Previous lives include financial journalism, business management, consulting and teaching. I have one wife, one child and no pets.

As a child I watched the 1940s movies on BBC2 every Saturday afternoon and loved the convoluted plots made real by Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and co. Now I write stories where the good guys and the bad guys are interchangeable and a truly happy ending appears in other people's books :-)

Thanks for listening.

Leo

Hi, we are UK writers of the Cornish DI Treloar mysteries featuring the increasingly well known Felipe Treloar.

We have lived in Cornwall in the UK for several years now and love it, especially the ruggedness and beauty of the County, and the lifestyle of the people who live here, which we draw out it the books. We have lived in and visited many places in the UK and around the world and these are gradually being featured in the books as each one has a major out of county player and some key scenes set outside Cornwall.

The Camargue in south of France, Amsterdam, South Africa, Brighton, Newcastle, and various parts of London including Oxford Street, Islington and Hampstead have featured so far.

We are avid crime readers ourselves and love Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, Peter James, Peter Robinson, Mo Hayder and Michael Dibden to name but a few!!

Hi, Everyone. This looks like a great group. Glad to be here.
I live in the southern Ozark Mountains with my wife, Mary Ann, and our lab mix, Seamus, and our Corgi mix, Peanut. I write both literary and mystery/thriller fiction. My first novel, A Late Flooding Thaw, A Late Flooding Thaw was published by Moon Lake Publishing in 2005. My poetry and fiction have appeared in a variety of magazines, and my short fiction in several anthologies, the latest being Yonder Mountain, from the University of Arkansas Press Yonder Mountain: An Ozarks Anthology. My mystery/thriller novel Sacrificial Lam, released by Wild Rose Press on March 3rd, Sacrificial Lam is set on a small Southern college campus. My favorite pastimes are reading, writing, traveling, and brewing beer (and of course, drinking it).

Welcome Gary, thanks for joining.

In 2011, I self-published a novel, A Ghoulish Good Time; in 2012, Post Mortem Press published my murder/mystery novel I’M NO P. I., and I have had many short stories published—such as one of my stories published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: It’s Christmas. I haven’t submitted anything in three years, though. I have MS, and for the past three years, I have been in a re-hab house—had to learn to walk and talk again. A doctor once asked me: “With having MS, How do you spend 90% of your day?” I replied, dryly: “Trying not to fall down.”

Sincerely,

Alan Zacher
P. O. Box 256
Newport, TN 37822

Sean wrote: "Welcome Gary, thanks for joining."

Thanks for having me. Looking forward to it.

Hi Everyone,

I'm Tony and like a few others I've seen, am still finding my feet on Goodreads although so far I've been amazed by the welcoming attitude of everybody – where do you all find the time.

I've loved reading for ever and decided to take the plunge and start writing full-time two and half years ago. I'll post more about the first book I published in the proper place and thought I should just paste in my standard bio below. Looking forward to 'meeting' you all.

Author Bio

Tony is the author of two novels, Best Eaten Cold and The Old Orchard (to be published in September 2017). He is currently working on his third, Sixty Minutes, which will be published in 2018.

Having worked as a manager and Chief Executive for most of his life, Tony decided in early 2015 that writing fiction would be the main focus of his life going forwards.

An avid reader across multiple fiction genres, he is happy to jump around between classics, literary fiction, fantasy (at the literary end), thrillers and anything else which comes along.

Highlights of his early career include (in no particular order) three years as an oilfield engineer in the Egyptian desert, twelve years managing record companies for EMI Music in Greece, India and across Eastern Europe, running a caravan site in the South of France and being chauffeur to the French Consul in Sydney.

Having survived the Dotcom boom, he went on to be a founder of the world’s largest website for expatriates, a major music publisher and a successful hotel technology business.

In amongst this, Tony found the time to backpack around the world twice (once in his twenties and once in his fifties), learn six languages (including Norwegian and Greek) and to find a beautiful Norwegian wife while studying for an MBA in Fontainebleau, France.

He now lives in Oxfordshire and writes full-time. He is fifty-seven and married with three children and four grandchildren.

You can find out more about Tony at www.tonysalter.com

Tony wrote: "Hi Everyone,

I'm Tony and like a few others I've seen, am still finding my feet on Goodreads although so far I've been amazed by the welcoming attitude of everybody – where do you all find the tim..."

I'm new to this particular group too, Tony. Looks like fun so far. All the best.

Thanks Gary

Hello friends! My name is Kelly J. McMullin. I'm new to the group and glad to be here. I'm a new author as of last fall and I just had my second book published. I'm a former Chicago Police Detective so hopefully my experience lends credibility to my writing. My two novels are crime/mystery/thrillers that follow Sam Kelly, the first female police chief in the fictional town of Cherokee Falls. My own experiences are interwoven within the books. I hope you give them a read. Thanks and best wishes to all!
Kelly


Kelly J. McMullin