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Steven James is a bestselling author who is beyond the boundaries of Genre. He has authored several marvels of non-fiction, fantasy and drama. The titles like Patrick Bowers and Jevin Banks thriller series are some of the masterpieces written by Steven. He has authored more than three dozen titles and continues to author more enigmatic pieces of literature.
Early and Personal Life
Steven James is a matured author born in 1969 in Wisconsin, he later on moved to Tennessee. He earned his Master of Arts in Storytelling from the East Tennessee State University in 1997.
He lives in the mesmerizing foothills of the Smoky Mountains of the eastern Tennessee. He lives with his wife and three daughters and has a very close knit family.
He loves to adventure and his hobbies include trail running, rock climbing and other adventure sports.
He is an avid fan of Coffee and loves to have it dark. He brews his own dark roast coffee to enjoy the fresh intense taste of the dark coffee.
Speaking makes him feel lively and is a very passionate speaker who loves his job.
Writing career
While most of the writers start early, Steven started very late. His first publication was in 2001. From 2001 to 2009 he wrote many single titles either alone or coauthored it with other writers.
In 2007, his career got a huge boost when his first crime novel Pawn got a huge success. Since then, Steven mostly writes about criminal mysteries or psychological thrillers and is said to transform the genre into a new level.
He is one of the seven Master CarftFest instructors at ThrillerFest. Thrillerfest is an event organized in North America with an aim to train aspiring suspense writers into professional writers. A good number of leading writers in the genre give him the credit for inspiring and shaping them into a great writer.
He has been praises like no other author is ever praised by the critics and the industry experts. The Suspense Magazine says that he has set a new standard in the suspense writings. The publishers weekly praises him saying he is a master story teller at the top of his game.
He has won the Christy Award thrice in his writing career along with several other awards and recognition.
The philosophical insights in his stories give his writings an edge to win over the hearts of the readers.
Best-selling Publications
Steven James has authored more than three dozen titles over a period of more than a decade. It is a very tough choice to make if one is asked to pick a few books as his best works. The books are incomparable and exceptional and set new standards for suspense writings. With every new title he puzzles the industry with a more refined writing style and presentation. Here are some of his best works that won the hearts of millions of readers around the world.
The Pawn
The Pawn is the first book of the Patrick Bowers Files Series. One of the best works by Steven, The Pawn has won several awards and recognitions for Steven.
The story is set in North California where a special agent Patrick Bowers is called for consultation on an area serial killer. When Patrick works on the case he unravels a mysterious deadly game of horror and bloodshed.
The killer is cunning and lethal psychopath who is always one step ahead of the law. Patrick has a severe challenge to stop this killer before he strikes again and takes another innocent life.
The killer calls himself ‘Illusionist’ and it will take all the mental abilities and instincts of Patrick to understand him and stop him before he kills some more innocent civilians.
The challenge before Patrick is that he is not able to put the pieces together and find a pattern in the series of crimes. He has to unravel the common factor connecting all the crimes to identify the next victim and nab the ‘Illusionist’.
The book is full of mysteries and it is a challenging task to take a break from reading. If you start the book, you will never feel like stopping until you finish the last page.
Opening Moves
The story is set at Milwaukee and the year is 1997, a time when the city is faces a hard time with Jaffery Dahmer a criminal is terrorizing the city with one crime after another.
The series of kidnappings and mutilations start happening in the city once again and the police is forced to conclude that a copycat of Jaffery is one the loose. However, Patrick Bowers a homicide detective with the police is convinced that there is more to the story. He believes that the serial killer and kidnapper is more than a copycat.
The story takes an amazing turn when Patrick finds out that the crimes committed by the serial killer have the traits of some of the most brutal killers of all time. He finds relevance to the most macabre killer in the whole nation.
The story is one of the most addictive books in the Patrick Bowers series and will force you to read chapter after chapter.
Blur
Blur is the first book of the Blur trilogy released in 2014, one of the best books ever written in the suspense genre and beating all the books authored by Steven, the book is a marvel to read.
The story is set in an isolated town of Wisconsin, Beldon. The whole town is shocked when the body of a high school freshman is found in the lake Algonquin. Just like everyone else in the town her sixteen year old friend Daniel Byers believes that she died of an accident.
The story takes an amazing turn when she appears and speaks to him at her funeral. Her visions rip him apart and is terrified at the beginning.
He is later on convinced that the visions and disappearance have a correlation and she is trying to tell him about the mysterious circumstances of her death.
When Daniel looks into her death he finds out that there are several unanswered mysteries around the death.He is so influenced by the situation that he starts seeing visions in the broad daylight and is unable to distinguish between reality and the visions.
In such a challenging situation, Daniel tries to uncover the mysteries of his friend’s death.
The breathtaking thriller full of twists and turns that will keep you spellbound till you finish reading the whole book.
Steven is a natural writer of suspense, he writes suspense with such a precision that there is no room for a break from the story. Every page is full of mysteries and there is a series of mysteries beautifully placed in all his writings. Steven is a must read author in the suspense genre.
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