I write thrillers. My Evan Delaney novels, featuring a smart-aleck freelance journalist, deal with religious extremism, a high school reunion killer, and sex, drugs, and rock’n'roll. (They’re set in California. Of course they do.)
China Lake won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
Stephen King calls them “simply put, the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years.”
My Jo Beckett series, featuring a San Francisco forensic psychiatrist, debuted in 2008 with The Dirty Secrets Club. The novel was chosen one of the year’s top ten thrillers by Amazon.com, and won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel of the year. The Memory Collector, second in the series, was published in June 2009.
Writing is my third career. In earlier incarnations I practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After living in California most of my life, several years ago I moved with my family to the UK. Now I write suspense novels — a job I’m immensely lucky to have. Meg Gardiner: lying for a living since 2002.
Main website: MegGardiner.com
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