Rick Reed
1950 – 2020
Rick Reed is a renowned American writer of thriller, suspense, crime fiction, detective fiction, and mystery novels. He is famous for writing the Jack Murphy series of novels. Reed is a former detective sergeant, who was employed as a Homicide Detective with the Indiana Police Department. He started his writing career with the true-crime novel called Blood Trail in 2004. In 2009, he shifted his focus towards writing fiction. Reed likes to write police thrillers that are somewhat based on his own experiences of working as a Detective Sergeant in the Violent Crime/Homicide Unit. Reed has penned and published a total of eight thriller novels in Jack Murphy series so far, all of which have been released under the banner of Kensington Publishing. He has also finished the writing part of the ninth novel, which is expected to be released in 2019. Also, he has plans to add several more titles in this series in the coming years.