Juliet Aharoni
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C.J. Lyons:
Hi C.J., Which of your books do you suggest I read first? Juliet C.B. aharoni
C.J. Lyons
Juliet, hi there! Thanks so much for asking. After 27 books, it's a tough call. I guess it depends on your mood.
My Lucy Guardino FBI Thrillers are my most popular series, featuring a Pittsburgh soccer mom who's also a kick-ass FBI agent working crimes against children. Lucy is very human and fallible, always caught in the universal tug of war we all face in juggling work and family, but in her case her work is saving kid's lives from the worst bad guys imaginable.
I will warn you (in fact, these books are the only series I know of that come with a warning in bold right on the book page!) the crimes and bad guys I use in these books come from real life, so they are very dark--many readers label them as hard-boiled. The first Lucy book is SNAKE SKIN.
If you enjoy a touch of romance with your thrillers, then either my Hart & Drake medical suspense series (it starts with NERVES OF STEEL) or my Shadow Ops series, starting with CHASING SHADOWS, might appeal.
Hart & Drake is darker, following one couple, a Pittsburgh police detective and ER doc, from the time they meet until they get married. Both are scarred souls, so the stories are about how they heal each other through their love (and catch some really bad guys along the way).
Shadow Ops is about a team of cover ops and those books are lighter, fast-paced, beach-read thrillers.
Both Hart & Drake and Shadow Ops books have sex scenes in them, in case that matters. And in all my books, my characters speak like real life people in extreme circumstances do, so yes, there is the occasional swear word.
Many folks come to my work via BLIND FAITH, another FBI thriller, which won the International Thriller Writers' Thriller Award.
You can find info on all my books here on Goodreads or on my website: http://cjlyons.net
Happy reading!
CJ
My Lucy Guardino FBI Thrillers are my most popular series, featuring a Pittsburgh soccer mom who's also a kick-ass FBI agent working crimes against children. Lucy is very human and fallible, always caught in the universal tug of war we all face in juggling work and family, but in her case her work is saving kid's lives from the worst bad guys imaginable.
I will warn you (in fact, these books are the only series I know of that come with a warning in bold right on the book page!) the crimes and bad guys I use in these books come from real life, so they are very dark--many readers label them as hard-boiled. The first Lucy book is SNAKE SKIN.
If you enjoy a touch of romance with your thrillers, then either my Hart & Drake medical suspense series (it starts with NERVES OF STEEL) or my Shadow Ops series, starting with CHASING SHADOWS, might appeal.
Hart & Drake is darker, following one couple, a Pittsburgh police detective and ER doc, from the time they meet until they get married. Both are scarred souls, so the stories are about how they heal each other through their love (and catch some really bad guys along the way).
Shadow Ops is about a team of cover ops and those books are lighter, fast-paced, beach-read thrillers.
Both Hart & Drake and Shadow Ops books have sex scenes in them, in case that matters. And in all my books, my characters speak like real life people in extreme circumstances do, so yes, there is the occasional swear word.
Many folks come to my work via BLIND FAITH, another FBI thriller, which won the International Thriller Writers' Thriller Award.
You can find info on all my books here on Goodreads or on my website: http://cjlyons.net
Happy reading!
CJ
More Answered Questions
Eric
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C.J. Lyons:
I have been a fan of your writing since discovering your Lucy Guardino series. I also enjoy Morgan as a character, which seems like a complicated venture, balancing her antisocial tendencies with enough redeeming qualities to make her a likable protagonist. Do you find your stories to be largely character driven? Is/was Morgan a difficult character to write?
Dick Ulmer
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C.J. Lyons:
I really love your books but I listen to them as audiobooks. Several of your series only have the first book available in audio (Beacon Falls, Renegade Justice). It seems like, as popular as your books are, Blackstone Audio would be working as hard as they can to get them into audiobook format. Is there some impediment to this?
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