Stephanie Andrews

Stephanie Andrews is a bestselling crime fiction and thriller author best known for the Red Riley series of novels. She believes that we are called upon to become heroines and heroes and to save the day hence why she writes the lead character, Kay Riley. Andrews has said that she hopes that her novels and her love for thriller and classic mysteries shine through her work in the Kay Riley crime thrillers. Since she is from Chicago she set her first novel of the Riley series “Chicago Blue” in the city. She got the inspiration for the lead character Riley from wanting to write a classic “wrong man thriller” similar to many that she had read. But she needed to make the character a woman who does not have any special skills as she starts out. However, she does pick up things along the way and becomes a lot sharper over the course of the series. Andrews was just interested in writing about a woman finding herself and coming out of her shell in a funny and exciting way. While she does not have a journalistic or police work background she manages to pull it off. She published the debut novel of the Red Riley series “Chicago Blue” in 2017 and writes one title every year. Apart from the Red Riley series, she has also written a crime thriller titled “The Grafton heist” that follows the exploits or a husband and wife team of con artists.