Brian Shea

Brian Shea is an American thriller novelist and a former police detective, a background that shows up directly in the procedural detail of his fiction. In this catalogue he is credited as co-author, alongside L.T. Ryan, on the great majority of the Rachel Hatch series -- fourteen of its fifteen tracked novels, from Drift through Switchback -- one of the higher-volume co-writing partnerships in independent thriller publishing. Beyond his work with Ryan, Shea has built his own catalogue of military and law-enforcement thrillers, reflecting the same procedural grounding evident in the Hatch books, though those other series are not yet tracked in this catalogue. This bio is necessarily brief: it reflects only what can be verified from the books catalogued here and Shea's well-documented professional background, rather than a full account of his independent bibliography.