Some people binge-eat Doritos or binge-watch Netflix when they’re stressed out. Me? I binge-read books with kick-ass heroes. Not superheroes, mind you, but regular guys who don’t need a mask and cape to fight evil.

The only way to solve a mystery, as a writer, is to become a criminal.

Choosing just five books to make my all-time list is a form of purgatory hell as I could list five hundred and still grieve the omission of the novels I love that didn’t make the cut. Needless to say, these five novels are not in a specific order. They are an eclectic...

The Court of Shadows belongs to the historical fantasy genre. As such, I took little-known facts and striking anecdotes from the historical Versailles, where I grew up, and I used them to create my vampiric version of Versailles

A key characteristic of psychological suspense novels is that they are full of twists, surprises and uncertainty - we never quite know who is telling the truth or who we can trust. The psychological thriller is part of the...

For my new book The Siberia Job, I go pretty deep into Russian research—but these are 5 places I couldn’t go. You won’t be able to go either.