Rick Mofina

Rick Mofina is a Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and USA Today bestselling author of more than 35 thrillers published in nearly thirty countries. During his career as a journalist, he worked for the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, the Calgary Herald, and Southam News on Parliament Hill. In that time, he interviewed murderers on death row, flew over Los Angeles with the LAPD, and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic Circle. He has also reported from the Caribbean, Africa, Kuwait, and Qatar. He is a two-time winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence, a Barry Award winner, and a multiple finalist for the International Thriller Writers Thriller Award and the Shamus Award. His freelance true‑crime stories have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Penthouse, and The New York Times. Library Journal calls him “One of the best thriller writers in the business.” In 2026, the Crime Writers of Canada presented him with its Grand Master Award. Rick Mofina’s work has been praised by such authors as James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Shari Lapena, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Louise Penny, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Lisa Unger, Lisa Gardner, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Freida McFadden, Heather Gudenkauf, Alafair Burke, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.