Kay Hooper

Kay Hooper is a prolific American novelist who has published romance and romantic suspense since the late 1970s, moving from category romance into the paranormal-tinged FBI thriller series for which she is now best known. Her long-running Bishop/Special Crimes Unit sequence follows an FBI unit of psychically gifted profilers investigating serial predators, blending police-procedural plotting with supernatural elements across dozens of interlinked novels and several sub-series (including the Fear, Evil, and Bishop's SCU arcs). Earlier in her career she wrote widely across romance imprints, including Bantam's Loveswept line, and was recognized by the Romance Writers of America with its Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Hooper has consistently placed on the New York Times bestseller list and is noted within the genre for sustaining a decades-long career through several shifts in romantic-fiction trends, from traditional Regency-style romance through romantic suspense to her current paranormal-procedural hybrid. In this catalogue, Hooper appears as one of thirteen authors who each wrote a chapter of I'd Kill For That (2004), a collaborative relay novel produced to raise money for breast-cancer research alongside authors including Lisa Gardner and Kathy Reichs.