Iris Johansen


Iris Johansen is an American author of crime fiction, suspense fiction, and romance novels.

Biography

Iris Johansen left a job as an airline reservations agent in the early 1980s to begin writing romance novels. 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 and soon after became a New York Times bestselling author. Johansen was born in St Louis Missouri, lives in Georgia, and is married. Her son, Roy Johansen, is an Edgar Award-winning screenwriter and novelist. Her daughter, Tamara, contributes as her research assistant.

Contemporary Romance Novels

List of series
List of series
List of series
List of series
List of series
  1. The Face of Deception
  2. The Killing Game
  3. The Search
  4. Body of Lies
  5. Dead Aim
  6. Blind Alley
  7. Countdown
  8. Stalemate
  9. Quicksand
  10. Blood Game
  11. Eight Days to Live
  12. Chasing the Night
  13. Eve
  14. Quinn
  15. Bonnie
  16. Sleep No More
  17. Taking Eve
  18. Hunting Eve
  19. Silencing Eve
  20. Shadow Play
  21. Hide Away
  22. Night and Day
  23. Mind Game
  24. Shattered Mirror
  25. Dark Tribute
  26. Smokescreen
  27. The Persuasion

    Featuring Catherine Ling

  28. Chasing the Night
  29. What Doesn't Kill You
  30. Live to See Tomorrow
  31. Your Next Breath
  32. Vendetta

    Stand Alone Novels

Stand Alone

  1. Silent Thunder
  2. Shadow Zone

    Featuring Kendra Michaels

  3. With Open Eyes
  4. Close Your Eyes
  5. Sight Unseen
  6. The Naked Eye
  7. Night Watch
  8. Look Behind You
  9. Double Blind
  10. Hindsight

    Awards

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.