Alice Blanchard is an award-winning author of suspense thrillers. "Trace of Evil” was an Amazon Best Mysteries selection, an Indie Next Pick, and a LoanStars Top Pick. Her debut mystery, “Darkness Peering,” was a New York Times’ Notable Book, and her bestselling thriller, “The Breathtaker,” was an official selection of NBC’s Today Show Book Club. Her story collection won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction, and she has received a PEN Fiction Award and a New Letters Literary Award, among other honors for her writing. Her books have been published in 16 countries.
“Blanchard is a superb storyteller.” ― Mystery & Suspense Magazine
“Blanchard's prose is swift and cinematic.” ― Publisher's Weekly
“Blanchard’s artistry whips up excitement… She writes so well that she rattles the rafters.” ― Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
“Blanchard may have literary roots, but (she) proves she can hold her own with the plot-wielding, bestselling big boys.” ― Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“A veteran storyteller at the peak of her powers.” ― Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean
“Blanchard writes with a gifted pen.” ― Bookreporter
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“My goal is to write fiction that marries the sweeping scope of the thriller with the more personal epiphanies of the short story.”