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Douglas Corleone

Biography

Douglas Corleone

Douglas Corleone is the internationally bestselling author of contemporary crime thrillers and speculative fiction. Corleone's debut novel, ONE MAN'S PARADISE, won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and was a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel.

Corleone has authored a dozen novels, including the Kevin Corvelli legal mysteries, the Simon Fisk international thrillers, and ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE JANSON EQUATION. Corleone’s other works include three stand-alone psychological thrillers, the Black Atlas cryptid series featuring evolutionary biologist Zack Hitchens, and the near-future science fiction series of stories GHOST SIGNAL: Dark Frequencies.

A former New York City criminal defense attorney, Corleone now resides in Honolulu, where he is currently at work on his next novel.

Douglas Corleone

Books by Douglas Corleone

by Douglas Corleone - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Crime writer Gregg Dryer returns to his Pennsylvania campus for Homecoming weekend to revisit the death of his girlfriend, Jess. During their freshman year, everyone assumed she took her own life when she fell from the roof of D’Amelio Hall --- everyone except Gregg. After 30 years of struggling with grief, guilt and personal demons, Gregg still has his doubts about how and why Jess really died that night. His search for answers is also a chance to reconnect with four friends from his college class. As Gregg’s investigation leads deeper into a past he doesn’t recognize, the trail grows darker and more dangerous with each new revelation. As a reunion among old friends becomes one of secrets and suspicions, Gregg must confront his own troubled history --- and a truth with which he may not be able to live.

by Douglas Corleone - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Prominent U.S. Senator James Wyckoff hires former government agents-turned-private security consultants Janson and Kincaid to locate his teenage son, Gregory. Gregory's girlfriend, Lynell, has been found strangled in a Seoul hotel, and Gregory has fled the city to avoid being arrested for the crime. But Senator Wyckoff insists that his son is innocent. When Janson and Kincaid realize they're being hunted by an assassin, they suspect that this crime --- and the cover-up --- were orchestrated by a shadowy unit of the U.S. State Department as part of a larger plot to provoke violence between North and South Korea.

by Douglas Corleone - Suspense, Thriller

Twelve years after a kidnapping destroyed former US Marshal Simon Fisk's family, he is newly determined to find the people responsible for taking his then-six-year-old daughter. He refuses to step away from the cold case, even after enduring months of dead ends and frustration. And then, at last, he gets a break. On a brutal January night, Simon finds an urgent message on his computer. Within a matter of hours, he is on a flight to Dublin, setting off to find a girl who may be Hailey Fisk --- before she's arrested for murder.

by Douglas Corleone - Crime, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

When movie studio mogul Edgar Trenton’s teenage daughter, Olivia, is kidnapped during a violent home invasion, former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk is called upon to ensure a smooth ransom exchange. But once it becomes clear that the kidnappers never intended to return Olivia to her parents, Simon must follow a lethal trail that will lead him from the powdery white sand beaches of the Cayman Islands through the wild jungles of Costa Rica, and into some of the darkest and deadliest cities of South America.

by Douglas Corleone - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk works to track down and recover children who were kidnapped by their own estranged parents. However, haunted by the disappearance of his own daughter years ago, he won’t touch stranger abduction cases. Until, that is, six-year-old Lindsay Sorkin disappears, and the French police deliver Simon an ultimatum: he can spend years in a French jail for his actions during a past case, or he can work with them now to find Lindsay.