Laura Griffin

Laura Griffin

Laura Griffin at the Romance Writer's of America Conference, July 2015, New York, NY
Pen name Laura Griffin
Occupation Novelist
Nationality America
Period - present
Genre romantic suspense
Notable awards RITA award – Best Romantic Suspense
2010 Whisper of Warning
RITA award – Best Romantic Suspense
2013 Scorched
Website
www.lauragriffin.com

Laura Griffin is a USA Today bestselling American author of romantic suspense. She has won Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense twice, as the Daphne du Maurier Award.

Biography

Griffin started her career as a journalist and preferred hard-news stories. She attributes her experience to her desire to write suspense fiction, since she's able to make justice prevail and give the characters happy endings. "As a reporter, you cover a lot of stories that go unresolved or do not end happily."[1]

She grew up reading Nancy Drew books, and as she grew older, Stephen King and Patricia Cornwell. "I love King and Cornwell because their books go above and beyond scary. To me it's the characters that make them so compelling — I care about the people, so I can't stop turning the pages to see what happens to them."[2]

In 2013, Griffin teamed up with bestselling author Allison Brennan to co-write a female detective series. Since they were both with different publishers, they decided to self-publish this series.[3]

She currently resides in Austin, Texas.

Bibliography

Borderline

Glass Sisters

Tracers

Moreno & Hart Mysteries

co-author Allison Brennan

Stand-alone works

Awards and reception

Griffin has also received several starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, as well as a Romantic Times Top Pick.

Several of her novels made the USA Today bestseller list. Twisted reached #132 in April 2012; Scorched reached #89 in November 2012; Exposed reached #139 in July 2013; and Beyond Limits reached #85 in February 2015.[5][6][7][8]

References

  1. Lamb, Joyce (October 31, 2012). "Interview: Laura Griffin, author of 'Scorched'". USA Today. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  2. Lamb, Joyce (April 15, 2014). "Interview: Laura Griffin, author of 'Far Gone'". USA Today. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  3. "RS author Kendra Elliot interviews Allison Brennan, Laura Griffin". USA Today. September 2, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "myRWA : RITA Awards : RITA Winners". rwa.org. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  5. "Beyond Limits". February 5, 2015. USA Today. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  6. "Exposed". July 4, 2013. USA Today. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  7. "Scorched". November 8, 2012. USA Today. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  8. "Twisted". USA Today. April 26, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2015.

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Awards
Preceded by
Cindy Gerard
Winner of the RITA Award
for Best Romantic Suspense

2010
Succeeded by
Karen Rose
Preceded by
J.D. Robb
Winner of the RITA Award
for Best Romantic Suspense

2013
Succeeded by
Carolyn Crane
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