Raheim Brooks

Rahiem Brooks is a mystery, thriller and crime novelist from Philadelphia. His most known works include the “Bezel Brothers”, the “First 8 Chapters Only” and the “Naim Butlers” series of novels. He has also written several single standing novels that have been very successful. As a teenager he left his hometown in Philadelphia and went to Los Angeles where he studied TV/film at UCLA. But as many people before him found out, it was hard getting into Hollywood and hence he decided to adapt. He took his first screenplay that he could not find any takers for, and made it into a novel as he went to Harvard University to study English. Some of his favorite authors include the likes of James Patterson whose novel “Along Came a Spider” was among some of the best novels he has ever read. Even today he often makes use of the novel when he is plotting and setting the scenes for his many novels. For his crime fiction, he loves to defer to John Grisham and Sue Grafton. Unlike many novelists, Rahiem was never much of a reader in his childhood and teen years. Just like Naim Butler, the lead in his Naim Butler series, he was brought up in poverty and hence reading was not something he did. One of the very few readings that he did was of an old encyclopedia gifted to him by his grandmother which eventually led to him developing an interest in reading and writing when he was in his late teens. He started out writing about crime before he shifted to mystery thrillers in his later works.