Iris Johansen

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Iris Johansen
Born (1938-04-07) April 7, 1938 (age 86)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation Novelist
Period1983–present
Genre Romance fiction, suspense fiction, crime fiction
Children2
Website
www.irisjohansen.com

Iris Johansen (born April 7, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer of crime fiction, suspense fiction, and romance novels.

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Career

Iris Johansen left a job as an airline reservations agent in the early 1980s to begin writing romance novels. [1] She changed direction slightly and began writing historical romantic suspense novels in 1991 with the publication of The Wind Dancer. She settled in to suspense writing as her main genre with the crime fiction thriller Ugly Duckling, published in 1996 [2] and soon after became a New York Times bestselling author.

Film adaptation

In 2011, the second novel in Johansen's Eve Duncan series was made in to a Lifetime film adaptation, The Killing Game , starring Laura Prepon as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan. This film adaptation was directed by Bobby Roth. [3]

Awards

Personal life

Johansen lives in Georgia, and is married. Her son, Roy Johansen, is an Edgar Award-winning screenwriter and novelist. Iris and Roy have written the Kendra Michaels books series together. [7] [8] [9] Her daughter, Tamara, contributes as her research assistant. [10] [11]

Works

Contemporary romance novels

Historical romance

Sedikhan Series

List of series [12]

Delaney Series

List of series [13]

The Delaneys of Killaroo Series

List of series [14]

The Shamrock Trinity Series

List of series [15]

Lion's Bride Series

List of series [16]

The Wind Dancer series

Featuring Eve Duncan

  1. The Face of Deception (Eve Duncan #1) (October, 1998)
  2. The Killing Game (September, 1999)
  3. The Search (June, 2000)
  4. Body of Lies (Eve Duncan #4) (March, 2002)
  5. Dead Aim (Eve Duncan #4.5) (April, 2003)
  6. Blind Alley (Eve Duncan #5) (September, 2004)
  7. Countdown (May, 2005)
  8. Stalemate (December, 2006)
  9. Quicksand (April, 2008)
  10. Blood Game (October, 2009)
  11. Eight Days to Live (April, 2010)
  12. Chasing the Night (October, 2010)
  13. Eve (April, 2011)
  14. Quinn (July, 2011)
  15. Bonnie (October, 2011)
  16. Sleep No More (October, 2012)
  17. Taking Eve (April, 2013)
  18. Hunting Eve (July, 2013)
  19. Silencing Eve (October, 2013)
  20. Shadow Play (September, 2015)
  21. Hide Away (April, 2016)
  22. Night and Day (July, 2016)
  23. Mind Game (October, 2017)
  24. Shattered Mirror (April, 2018)
  25. Dark Tribute (March, 2019)
  26. Smokescreen (July, 2019)
  27. The Persuasion (June, 2020)
  28. The Bullet (June 8, 2021)
  29. A Face to Die For (Eve Duncan #28) (June 14, 2022)
  30. Captive (Eve Duncan #29) (September 6, 2022)
  31. The Survivor (Eve Duncan #30) (6 June 2023)

Featuring Catherine Ling

  1. Chasing the Night (October, 2010)
  2. What Doesn't Kill You (April, 2012)
  3. Live to See Tomorrow (April, 2014)
  4. Your Next Breath (April, 2015)
  5. Vendetta (October, 2018)

Standalone novels

With Roy Johansen

Standalone

  • Storm Cycle (July, 2009)

Featuring Hannah Bryson

  1. Silent Thunder (July, 2008)
  2. Shadow Zone (July, 2010)

Featuring Kendra Michaels

  1. With Open Eyes (June, 2012) [e-book short story]
  2. Close Your Eyes (July, 2012)
  3. Sight Unseen (July, 2014)
  4. The Naked Eye (July, 2015)
  5. Night Watch (October, 2016)
  6. Look Behind You (July, 2017)
  7. Double Blind (July, 2018)
  8. Hindsight (January, 2020)
  9. Blink of an Eye (February 2, 2021)
  10. Killer View (2022) (written by Roy Johansen with a foreword by Iris Johansen)
  11. More Than Meets The Eye (2023)
  12. Flashback (2024) [7]

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  3. ↑ "Iris Johansen's The Killing Game - Official Movie Site - myLifetime.com". 22 October 2011. Archived from the original on 22 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Historical Romance". RT Book Reviews.
  5. ↑ "Suspense". RT Book Reviews.
  6. ↑ "Career Achievement - Thriller". RT Book Reviews.
  7. 1 2 3 Mystery Sequels website, Iris Johansen Eve Duncan Series in Order
  8. ↑ Omni Mystery website, Authors section, Johansen, Roy
  9. ↑ Mystery Scene Magazine website, Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen on Their Favorite Childhood Books, interview dated 2014
  10. ↑ GoodReads website, Iris Johansen, retrieved 2024-06-06
  11. ↑ Fiction DB website, Iris Johansen, retrieved 2024-06-06
  12. ↑ "Sedikhan". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  13. ↑ "The Delaneys". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  14. ↑ "The Delaneys of Killaroo". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  15. ↑ "The Shamrock Trinity". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  16. ↑ "Lion's Bride". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
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