I write thrillers. The Evan Delaney novels feature a smart-aleck freelance journalist from Santa Barbara, California. Stephen King calls them “simply put, the finest crime-suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years.”
China Lake won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.
The Jo Beckett series features a San Francisco forensic psychiatrist. It includes The Liar’s Lullaby, The Memory Collector, and The Dirty Secrets Club, which was chosen one of the Top Ten thrillers of 2008 by Amazon, and won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel of the year.
The Nightmare Thief, featuring both Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney, won the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense audiobook of the year.
My latest book is the stand alone novel Ransom River.
Writing is my third career. In earlier incarnations I practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I moved with my family to the UK and more recently to Austin, Texas. Now I write suspense novels — a job I’m immensely lucky to have. Meg Gardiner: lying for a living.
Main website: MegGardiner.com
e-mail: meg@meggardiner.com
Twitter: @MegGardiner1
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