Lisa Towles is an Amazon Bestselling, award-winning crime novelist and a passionate speaker on the topics of fiction writing, creativity, and self care. She has nine crime thrillers in print with a new title, Salt Island, forthcoming in June of 2023. Her latest thriller, The Ridders (November, 2022) won an American Fiction Award, and her psychological thriller Hot House (June 2022) was a #1 Amazon Kindle Bestseller. Lisa is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers and is deeply committed to supporting writers' success through friendship, fellowship and community engagement.
She is Board President of a Bay Area nonprofit (Bridgegood.org) and speaks frequently to groups of business leaders and writers about her platform Strategic Self Care. She has an MBA in IT Management and works full-time in the tech industry in the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.lisatowles.com, strategicselfcare.blog, indiesunited.net/lisa-towles.
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Genres: Thriller
New and upcoming books
Novels
Choke (2017)
The Unseen (2019)
Ninety-Five (2021)
The Ridders (2022)
Terror Bay (2023)
Codex (2024)
Specimen (2024)
The Unseen (2019)
Ninety-Five (2021)
The Ridders (2022)
Terror Bay (2023)
Codex (2024)
Specimen (2024)
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What He Left Behind (2025)
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