Allison Brennan (born September 29, 1969) is an American best-selling writer of
romantic thriller novels. Her first book was published in 2005.
Biography
Brennan was born in
San Carlos, California
San Carlos (Spanish for "St. Charles") is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. The population is 30,722 per the 2020 census.
History
Native Americans
Prior to the Spanish arrival in 1769, the land of San Carlos was occupi ...
. In 1987, she graduated from
Menlo School
Menlo School, also referred to as Menlo, is a private college preparatory school in Atherton, California, United States, across the street from Menlo Park. Menlo comprises a middle school, grades 6–8, with approximately 230 students, an ...
in
Atherton, California
Atherton () is an List of municipalities in California, incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County, California, United States. Its population was 7,188 as of 2020.
Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Athe ...
, and attended college at
UC Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located on Monterey Bay, on the edge of ...
from 1987 to 1989, working as a legislative consultant in the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2005. In 1993, she married Dan Brennan, and they had five children. She currently resides in
Elk Grove, California
Elk Grove is a city in Sacramento County, California, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento. It is part of the Sacramento–Arden-Arcade– Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 Census, the population o ...
.
Since 2005, Brennan has published numerous novels, five of which are found in over 1000 libraries
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Bibliography
Novels
Predator trilogy
* ''The Prey'' (December 27, 2005)
**Translated into German by Edith Waller as ''Leichte Beute'', 2009
**Translated into Spanish by Alberto Magnet as ''La presa'', 2006
* ''The Hunt'' (January 31, 2006)
**Translated into German by Edith Walter as ''Lauf oder stirb'', 2008
**Translated into Spanish by Alberto Magnet as ''La caza'', 2007
**Translated into Japanese by Andō Yukiko yaku as ''Hanto'', 2007
* ''The Kill'' (February 28, 2006)
**Translated into German by Edith Walter as ''Sieh dich vor'', 2009
**Translated into Spanish by Martín Rodríguez-Courel Ginzo as '' La trampa'', 2007
No Evil trilogy
* ''Speak No Evil '' (January 30, 2007)
**Translated into German by Sabine Schilasky as ''Hass soll dich zerstören'' (2009)[ WorldCat]
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**Translated into Japanese by Andō Yukiko as ''唇...塞がれて. 下 / Kuchibiru fusagarete ''
* ''See No Evil '' (February 27, 2007)
**Translated into German by Sabine Schilasky as ''Rache wird dich treffen'', 2010[ WorldCat]
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**Translated into Japanese by Andō Yukiko as '瞳...閉ざされて. 下 / Hitomi tozasarete ''
* ''Fear No Evil'' (March 27, 2007)
**Translated into German by Sabine Schilasky as ''Furcht soll dich begleiten'' (2010)
Prison Break trilogy
* '' Killing Fear'' (January 29, 2008) In 1016 libraries according to ''WorldCat
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**Translated into Italian by Matteo Diari as ''Omicidi a luci rosse'', 2008
* ''Tempting Evil'' (May 20, 2008)
* ''Playing Dead'' (September 30, 2008)
FBI trilogy
* ''Sudden Death'' (March 24, 2009)
* ''Fatal Secrets'' (May 19, 2009)
* ''Cutting Edge'' (July 28, 2009)
7 Deadly Sins
* ''Original Sin '' (February 10, 2010)
**Translated into German by Irene Eisenhut as ''Sündenjagd''
* ''Carnal Sin'' (June 2010)
Lucy Kincaid
* ''Love Me to Death'' (December 28, 2010)
* ''Kiss Me, Kill Me'' (February 22, 2011)
* ''If I Should Die'' (November 22, 2011, includes novella "Love is Murder") New York Times Bestseller
* ''Silenced'' (April 24, 2012)
* ''Stalked'' (October 30, 2012)
* ''Stolen'' (June 4, 2013)
* ''Cold Snap'' (October 29, 2013, includes novella "Reckless" in the Mass Market Paperback)
* ''Dead Heat'' (June 3, 2014)
* ''Best Laid Plans'' (August 4, 2015)
* ''No Good Deed'' (November 3, 2015)
* ''The Lost Girls'' (November 1, 2016)
*''Make Them Pay'' (March 7, 2017)
*''Breaking Point'' (January 30, 2018)
*''Too Far Gone'' (October 30, 2018)
*''Nothing to Hide'' (April 30, 2019)
*''Cut and Run'' (March 31, 2019)
*''No Way Out'' (June 02, 2020)
Max Revere novels
# ''Notorious'' (March 2014)
# ''Compulsion'' (April 2015)
# ''Poisonous'' (April 2016)
# ''Shattered'' (August 2017)
# ''Abandoned'' (August 2018)
Short stories and novellas
* "Killing Justice" (in ''Killer Year,'' January 2008)
* "Deliver Us From Evil" (in ''What You Can't See,'' January 2008)[ WorldCat]
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* "A Capitol Obsession" (in ''Two of the Deadliest, ''July 2009)
* "Her Lucky Day" (in Blood Lite II, October 2010)
* "Ghostly Justice" (in ''Entangled,'' October 2011)
* "Above Reproach" (in ''Guns N' Roses,'' February 2012)
* "Vacation Interrupted" (in ''Love Is Murder,'' June 2012)
* "Murder in the River City" (digital novella, August 2012)
* "Reckless " (Lucy Kincaid digital novella, March 2013, would appear later in the year for the first time in print for 2013's "Cold Snap")
*"Maximum Exposure" (Max Revere novella, April 2014)
* "Aim to Kill " (novella in Sweet Dreams boxed set. May 2015)
*"Two to Die For" (Max Revere digital novella, September 2017)
*"Storm Warning" (Lucy Kincaid digital novella, April 2019)
*"A Deeper Fear" (Lucy Kincaid digital novella, January 2021)
References
External links
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1969 births
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American women writers
American thriller writers
Living people
People from Elk Grove, California
People from San Carlos, California
American women novelists
Women thriller writers
Novelists from California