Shane Gericke

Bestselling novelist Shane Gericke is the author of Torn Apart, which was short-listed for the prestigious Thriller Award and named a Book of the Year by Suspense magazine. RT Book Reviews named his Blown Away the best debut mystery of the year. A bestseller in both print and eBooks, Shane's thrillers have been translated into German, Chinese, Turkish, and Slovak, allowing him to correspond with readers around the world. Shane, whose last name is pronounced YER-kee, spent twenty-five years as a newspaper editor, most prominently at the Chicago Sun-Times, before jumping into fiction. He keeps his hand in nonfiction by writing for digital media and trade magazines. Shane lives in the Chicago suburb of Naperville.