Meet the Thriller Author (Author Interviews)

MTTA 139: Dean Koontz

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I’m thrilled to welcome back the legandary author, Dean Koontz back to the podcast. Dean Koontz is the interantioally known bestselling author of th...

MTTA 138: James Rosone

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Rosone started a military career in the Army National Guard as a communications specialist and forward observer for a self-propelled artillery u...

MTTA 137: Timothy Miller

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tim is from Louisiana and has lived all over Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, and Milan, Italy where the inspiration for The...

MTTA 136: Dana Stabenow

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dana Stabenow is an author of science fiction, mystery/crime fiction, suspense/thriller, and historical adventure novels. Dana Stabenow was born in An...

MTTA 135: Mark Greaney

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

#1 NYT bestselling author Mark Greaney’s debut international thriller, THE GRAY MAN, was published in 2009 and became a national bestseller and a...

MTTA 134: Sebastian Fitzek

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sebastian Fitzek is one of Europe’s most successful authors of psychological thrillers. His books have sold 12 million copies, been translated into ...

MTTA 133: Paul Vidich

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

PAUL VIDICH’S fourth novel, The Mercenary, is forthcoming from Pegasus Books in February 2021. His debut novel, An Honorable Man, was selected by Pu...

MTTA 132: Walter Mosley

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated and beloved writers. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than tw...

MTTA 131: Gregg Hurwitz

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of 22 thrillers including the ORPHAN X series. His novels have won numerous ...

MTTA 130: David Rohlfing

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After a long career in business that gave him the opportunity to travel to all but one continent and countless countries around the globe, David decid...

MTTA 129: Edwin Hill

13 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Edwin is the Edgar- and Agatha-award nominated author of Little Comfort, The Missing Ones, and Watch Her. He was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and s...

MTTA 128: Jon Land

29 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Land is the USA Today bestselling author of 50 books including the bestselling and critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong series. A few years ago, Jo...

MTTA 127: Robert McCaw

22 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Robert B. McCaw grew up in a military family traveling the world. After graduating from Georgetown University, he served as a lieutenant in the US Arm...

MTTA 126: Les Edgerton

15 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Les Edgerton has published more than 20 books, his latest Hard Times, was published by Bronzeville Books on December 7, 2020. Les teaches creative wri...

MTTA 125: Jeff Lindsay

08 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Lindsay is the author of the Riley Wolfe novels, and the New York Times bestselling author of the Dexter novels, which debuted in 2004 with Darkl...

MTTA 124: Eileen Ormsby

01 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eileen Ormsby is a lawyer, author and freelance journalist based in Melbourne. Her first book, Silk Road was the world’s first in-depth expose of th...

MTTA 123: Otto Penzler

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and is regarded as the world’s foremost authority on crime, mystery and s...

MTTA 122: Jennifer Graeser Dornbush

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer is a screenwriter, author, speaker, and forensic specialist who aims to shed light and hope in the dark places of the human experience. The t...

MTTA 121: Danny Gardner

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From his beginnings as a young stand-up comedian (Def Comedy Jam All-Stars vol. 12), Danny Gardner has enjoyed careers as an actor, director, and scre...

MTTA 120: K.A. Perry

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

K. A. Perry brings a unique perspective to her environmental thrillers. Her ability to utilize nature as the catalyst to keep her plot moving, and dri...

MTTA 119: Dan Padavona

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Padavona has written horror and thriller novels. He’s the author of the bestselling Darkwater Cove Psychological Thriller series. The latest boo...

MTTA 118: Rick Mofina

20 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Mofina is a former journalist who has interviewed murderers on death row, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canad...

MTTA 117: Noelle Holten

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Noelle Holten is an award-winning blogger at Crime Book Junkie. She is the PR & Social Media Manager for Bookouture, a leading digital publisher in th...

MTTA 116: Brian Freeman

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Freeman is a New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers, including the Jonathan Stride and Frost Easton series. His books have...

MTTA 115: Paul Levine

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Levine has worked as a newspaper reporter, a law professor and a trial lawyer before becoming a full-time novelist. His books have been translate...

MTTA 114: Andrews and Wilson

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrews & Wilson is bestselling coauthor team of multiple covert ops and action-adventure thriller series: TIER ONE, SONS of VALOR, and THE SHEPHERDS....

MTTA 113: Joshua Hood

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Joshua Hood is the author of The Treadstone Resurrection & Search and Destroy Series. Before becoming a bestselling author, Joshua joined the army aft...

MTTA 112: Thomas O’Callaghan

08 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas O’Callaghan’s work has been translated for publication in Germany, Slovakia, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, China, and Italy. As an interna...

MTTA 111: Brad Parks

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s mos...

MTTA 110: Lydia Kang

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York Univers...

MTTA 109: John Gilstrap

18 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Gilstrap is the New York Times bestselling author of Total Mayhem, Scorpion Strike, Final Target, Friendly Fire, Against All Enemies, End Game, H...

MTTA 108: Joseph Reid

11 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Happy to have Joseph Reid back on the podcast! I interviewed Joe back in 2018 when his writing career was starting off with the first book in his now ...

MTTA 107: Tracy Clark

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tracy Clark is a native Chicagoan who writes mysteries set in her hometown while working as an editor in the newspaper industry. She is a graduate of ...

MTTA 106: Charlie Donlea

28 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Donlea is the USA Today and International bestselling author of Summit Lake, The Girl Who Was Taken, Don’t Believe It, and Some Choose Darkn...

MTTA 105: Michael Elias Interview

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Elias is an award-winning writer, actor and director who has written film, television, theatre and fiction. His latest novel, You Can Go Home ...

MTTA 104: John Bishop M.D.

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Bishop writes the Doc Brady Medical Thriller series. He spent thirty years as a practicing orthopedic surgeon giving the reader a unique glimpse ...

MTTA 103: Glenn Dyer

07 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Long captivated by the events of World War II, Glenn Dyer couples this fascination with his passion for historical thrillers with the publication of “...

MTTA 102: Marc Cameron

24 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Author of the New York Times bestselling Jericho Quinn Thriller series, Marc Cameron’s short stories have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and ...

MTTA 101: T.R. Ragan Interview

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

T.R. Ragan (Theresa Ragan) is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. Her exciting Lizzy Gardner series: Abducted, De...

MTTA 100: Barbara Nickless Interview

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

#1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Barbara Nickless promised her mother she’d be a novelist when she grew up. What could be...

MTTA 99: Scott Carson Interview

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Carson is the pen name for a New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter. He lives in New England—just above a dam. THE CHILL is Scott’...

MTTA 98: Andrew Mayne Interview

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Mayne has starred in his own television show on A&E, Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne, and on Shark Week. He’s a bestselling novelist and magician....

MTTA 97: Andrews & Wilson Interview

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrews & Wilson is the bestselling co-author team of several covert ops and action-adventure thriller books in the TIER ONE series and other books. B...

MTTA 96: Jason Pinter Interview

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Pinter is the bestselling author of Hide Away, the first Rachel Marin novel, as well as five novels in his Henry Parker thriller series and the ...

MTTA 95: Marcia Clark Interview

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 prosecut...

MTTA 94: Lee Goldberg Interview

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

#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...

MTTA 93: Dean Koontz Interview

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

MTTA 92: Gregg Hurwitz Interview

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 21 thrillers, including the ORPHAN X series, and two award-winning thril...

MTTA 91: Bill Brewer

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

MTTA 90: Matt Coyle

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

MTTA 89: Peter Riva

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ea...

MTTA 88: Lee Goldberg

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

#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...

MTTA 87: Diana Xarissa

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 scener...

MTTA 86: Dean Koontz

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 appea...

MTTA 85: Andrews and Wilson

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, the co-author team behind the #1 Bestselling TIER ONE series and other stand alone thrillers. Jeffrey Wilson has at on...

MTTA 84: Jim Heskett

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

MTTA 83: Vince Milam

13 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon Best-Selling Author Vince Milam has lived all over the world, traipsing through the Amazon, Congo, and Papua New Guinea – all the while captu...

MTTA 82: James Swallow

23 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

MTTA 81: Michael Lindley

10 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Lindley is a #1 Amazon author for “Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense” as well as “Historical Mysteries” with his debut novel “The Emma...

MTTA 80: Mike Omer

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 deve...

MTTA 79: Mike Gomes

21 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 tha...

MTTA 78: D.P. Lyle

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

MTTA 77: Robert Dugoni

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series, whi...

MTTA 76: Lauren Carr

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Thorny Rose, Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries—over t...

MTTA 75: William L. Myers, Jr.

12 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

William L. Myers, Jr. is the No. 6 best-selling author for Amazon Kindle in 2017 for his debut novel, A Criminal Defense. That was the first in what h...

MTTA 74: Peter May

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Peter May is an author, screenwriter, and creator of television drama. Peter May was born in Glasgow but now lives in France where his books have won ...

MTTA 73: Gavin Reese

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Gavin Reese grew up in the rural American Southwest, eventually moving to the Big City with his family, and considers both New Mexico and Arizona home...

MTTA 72: James Scott Bell

17 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

James Scott Bell is a winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for his novel, Romeo’s Way, and the #1 bestselling author of books on the c...

MTTA 71: Bob Mayer

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Bob Mayer is a NY Times Bestselling author. He’s had over 75 books published and sold over 5 million, including the #1 series Area 51, The Green Ber...

MTTA 70: Michael Lister

14 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Lister grew up in a small town in North Florida near the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River. Captivated by story since childhood, Micha...

MTTA 69: Ellison Cooper

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ellison Cooper has a Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA, with a background in archaeology, cultural neuroscience, ancient religion, colonialism, and huma...

MTTA 68: Joseph Reid

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Reid is the debut author of Takeoff, the first adventure of air marshal-turned-investigator Seth Walker. The son of a navy helicopter pilot, Re...

MTTA 67: Matthew Betley

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Betley writes the bestselling Logan West Thrillers. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended St. Xavier High School and then Miami Universi...

MTTA 66: Thomas Greanias

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Greanias is a New York Times bestselling novelist and one of the world’s leading authors of adventure. His books in print have been trans...

MTTA 65: David F. Berens

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Berens is a professional tennis player, teaching folks how to play tennis as well writing crime thrillers. He has traveled up and down the East ...

MTTA 64: David Banner

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

David Banner is an author living in the Coastal Southeast. He has always loved the beach and the open water is a movie lover and spends way too much t...

MTTA 63: Philip Donlay

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Donlay has been a flight instructor, flown a private jet for a Saudi prince, and for twenty-eight years flew a corporate jet for a Fortune 500 ...

MTTA 62: Lucinda Berry

16 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Lucinda Berry is a trauma psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. She uses her clinical experience to create disturbing psycholog...

MTTA 61: Steven Konkoly

02 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Konkoly is the USA Today bestselling author of over twenty novels and novellas. His canon of THRILLERS includes: the FRACTURED STATE trilogy, a...

MTTA 60: Sean Ellis

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Ellis has authored and co-authored more than two dozen action-adventure novels, including the Nick Kismet adventures, the Jack Sigler/Chess Team ...

MTTA 59: Carolyn L. Dean

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Carolyn L. Dean has been a published author for a while now, under different names and genres. She is the author of bestselling (over 400,000 copies d...

MTTA 58: John C. Dalglish

21 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

John C. Dalglish was born in Toronto, Canada and moved to the United States when he was a teenager and lives in Southwest Missouri. He is the author o...

MTTA 57: Hank Early

08 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Hank Early spent much of his youth in the mountains of North Georgia, but he never held a snake or got struck by lightning. These days, he lives in ce...

MTTA 56: Shannon Baker

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Shannon Baker is the author of Stripped Bare, the first in the Kate Fox Mystery series (Tor/Forge, September 2016) and the upcoming Dark Signal, the s...

MTTA 55: Tess Gerritsen

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medica...

MTTA 54: Kyle Mills

19 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Mills is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of sixteen political thrillers. He recently took over writing the Mitch Rapp series for the lat...

MTTA 53: Alexandra Amor

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Amor writes mysteries that are about love, friendship and the search for truth. At the moment, she is working on the next book in her Town C...

MTTA 52: Nick Thacker

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Nick is an action-adventure thriller novelist, who writes the types of books he likes to read. That means you won’t find anything boring, slow, or s...

MTTA 51: Rachel Sinclair

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Sinclair is the bestselling author of the Harper Ross Legal Thrillers. She was a criminal defense attorney for 11 years, so she doesn’t scare...

MTTA 50: J.F. Penn

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

J.F.Penn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the ARKANE supernatural thrillers and London Psychic crime series. Her books weave ...

MTTA 49: Tara Ellis

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Tara Ellis is an Amazon best-selling author, lives in a small, rural town in Washington State set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. She enjoys the q...

MTTA 48: E.H. Reinhard

30 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

E.H. Reinhard was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He now resides in sunny Tampa, Florida. When not putting pen to paper, or keys to keyboard, writing th...

MTTA 47: Timothy Hallinan

16 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Timothy Hallinan is the award-winning author of twenty highly praised novels. He currently writes two series: the Poke Rafferty Bangkok Thrillers, foc...

MTTA 46: William Bernhardt

09 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

William Bernhardt is the bestselling author of more than forty books, including the blockbuster Ben Kincaid series of novels, the historical novel Nem...

MTTA 45: Cindy Brown

25 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Cindy Brown has been a theater geek (musician, actor, director, producer, and playwright) since her first professional gig at age 14. Cindy is now a f...

MTTA 44: Tim Tigner

11 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

International Bestselling Author Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the US Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. Tim swit...

MTTA 43: CeeCee James

28 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

CeeCee James is the author of the Angel Lake Mystery series which is a bestselling cozy mystery series. CeeCee is a wife, mom of four kids and pet mom...

MTTA 42: John Hindmarsh

14 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

John Hindmarsh writes thrillers and science fiction (sometimes with crossover). John is originally from Australia and now lives in the High Sierra reg...

MTTA 41: Libby Fischer Hellmann

14 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Libby Fischer Hellmann is from Washington, D.C. and now lives in Chicago, where she writes page-turning thrillers. She has published thirteen novels a...

MTTA 40: A.C. Fuller

31 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A.C. Fuller is the author of media thrillers. A.C. has a journalism background, having worked as a journalist in New York and he was an adjunct profes...