

Meet the Thriller Author (Author Interviews)
Alan Petersen
Interviews with bestselling authors of mystery, suspense, and thriller books.
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Feb 11, 2020 • 32min
MTTA 90: Matt Coyle
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 him the simple art of murder by Raymond Chandler. He graduated with a degree in English from University of California at Santa Barbara. His foray into...
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Jan 21, 2020 • 33min
MTTA 89: Peter Riva
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 East African hunters and adventurers. He created a TV series in 1995 called Wild Things for Paramount. Passing on the fables, true tales, and insider knowledge of these last reserves...
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Dec 31, 2019 • 27min
MTTA 88: Lee Goldberg
#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 writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop shows (Hunter, The Glades), martial arts (Martial Law), whodunits (Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe), the occult (She-Wolf of...
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Dec 10, 2019 • 33min
MTTA 87: Diana Xarissa
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 scenery, wonderful people and fascinating history that make the Isle of Man so unique. Diana writes the best-selling Aunt Bessie Mysteries, and her new series, the Isle of Man...
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Nov 12, 2019 • 32min
MTTA 86: Dean Koontz
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 appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with 14 hardcovers and 16 paperbacks reaching the number-one position. His books are published in 38 languages and he has...
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Nov 5, 2019 • 26min
MTTA 85: Andrews and Wilson
Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, the co-author team behind the #1 Bestselling TIER ONE series and other stand alone thrillers. Jeffrey Wilson has at one time worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot, a diving instructor, a Naval Officer, and a Vascular and Trauma Surgeon. He also served two tours in...
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Sep 25, 2019 • 29min
MTTA 84: Jim Heskett
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 with writing at the age of fourteen with a copy of Stephen King’s The Shining. Poetry became his first outlet for teen angst, then later some screenplays, and eventually, short fiction and long fiction...
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Aug 13, 2019 • 30min
MTTA 83: Vince Milam
Amazon Best-Selling Author Vince Milam has lived all over the world, traipsing through the Amazon, Congo, and Papua New Guinea – all the while capturing sights, experiences, and personalities that are incorporated into his writing. You can see those results in his best-selling Case Lee series of novels. In this episode of the podcast, we...
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Jul 23, 2019 • 33min
MTTA 82: James Swallow
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 journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video games, radio and television. His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former...
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Jul 10, 2019 • 30min
MTTA 81: Michael Lindley
Michael Lindley is a #1 Amazon author for “Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense” as well as “Historical Mysteries” with his debut novel “The EmmaLee Affairs.” Most recently, his “Lies We Never See” reached #1 for “Historical Thrillers” and “Psychological Thrillers”. His subsequent novels follow this genre in the continuing “Troubled Waters Series”. His stories feature love...
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