Gabrielle Lord survived being ‘razed’ by the nuns, acquired an education despite this, and after working in many different areas, sales, teaching, brick-cleaning, peach-picking and packing, and in the Public Service as an employment officer, started writing seriously aged 30.

Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, John Grisham was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby — writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro,(…)

Greg Iles was born in Germany, where his father ran the US Embassy Medical Clinic during the height of the Cold War. He spent his youth in Natchez, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1983. His first novel, SPANDAU PHOENIX, a thriller about Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, was published in 1992(…)

Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author and Edgar award-winning author of 22 novels. She also writes a weekly column with her daughter Francesca Serritella for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “”Chick Wit”” which is a witty and fun take on life from a woman’s perspective. These stories, along with many other never-before-published stories,(…)

Scott Turow is an attorney and an author. Scott has been married to Annette Turow, a painter, since 1971. They have three children. The family lives outside Chicago. Photo credit: Jeremy Lawson Photography

Wilbur Smith is one of the world’s most prolific and skilled storytellers, having written 32 bestselling novels. While Wilbur is probably best-known for his African and Egyptian series, one of his most recent novel, THOSE IN PERIL, is a fast-paced, contemporary thriller set in the Indian Ocean where a group of pirates kidnap the 19-year-old(…)