Location: Canada
Member Since: May 29, 2011

Rick Mofina


Biography

Rick Mofina is a former journalist and an award-winning author of several acclaimed thrillers. His reporting has put him face-to-face with murderers on death row in Montana and Texas. He has covered a horrific serial-killing case in California and an armored car-heist in Las Vegas, flown over Los Angeles with the LAPD Air Support Division and gone on patrol with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He has reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait’s border with Iraq.

Rick’s true-crime articles have appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Reader’s Digest and Penthouse while his thrillers have been published in 19 countries and praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Sandra Brown, Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, Peter Robinson, Allison Brennan, David Morrell, Linwood Barclay and Kay Hooper.

Rick is a two-time winner of The Arthur Ellis Award and the International Thriller Writers, Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed his crime fiction as being among the very best in the genre.

Where to find Rick Mofina online

Website: http://www.rickmofina.com/
Twitter: RickMofina
Facebook: Facebook profile

Where to buy in print

http://www.rickmofina.com/books.html

Books

The Last Pursuit    by Rick Mofina
Price: $1.99 USD. 7370 words. Published on April 7, 2012. Fiction.
John Garrett is a cop aching to redeem himself for the mistake he made that destroyed two innocent lives and his own. He works alone to pursue the murderer he was escorting to trial, after their plane crashes in the unforgiving Rocky Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. This 5,800-word story by Rick Mofina is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.
A Lifetime Burning In A Moment    by Rick Mofina
Price: $1.99 USD. 6270 words. Published on April 7, 2012. Fiction.
John Devlin is a mild-mannered actuary and lifelong weakling who is forced to search for courage when his family is threatened while vacationing in a remote region far from help. "A Lifetime Burning in a Moment" is a tense, 4,700-word story by acclaimed thriller author Rick Mofina. It is one of three gripping tales in his crime anthology, THREE TO THE HEART.
Backup    by Rick Mofina
Price: $1.99 USD. 3860 words. Published on April 7, 2012. Fiction.
An 11-year-old boy finds his dad's gun and rushes to a deadly stand off at the mall. "Backup" by Rick Mofina is the 2,300-word, gut-wrenching short story that was nominated for Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ellis Award, in the category of Best Short Story, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.
Three to the Heart    by Rick Mofina
Price: $3.99 USD. 14460 words. Published on April 7, 2012. Fiction.
With his anthology, THREE TO THE HEART, Rick Mofina provides three of his finest short pieces of crime fiction. Three acclaimed, heart-wrenching short stories of people facing enormous odds. Rick Mofina is a former crime reporter and the award-winning author of several notable thrillers.
As Long As We Both Shall Live    by Rick Mofina
Price: $0.99 USD. 16780 words. Published on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
Liz Dalton's world was coming apart but she refused to surrender. This short work was named a finalist for Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.
Dangerous Women & Desperate Men    by Rick Mofina
Price: $2.99 USD. 27910 words. Published on June 19, 2011. Fiction.
Four gripping stories of people on the brink; a broken-hearted woman in Las Vegas plots to take what she is owed, a haunted street cop finds his life on the line in a way he never expected; a desperate agent in California makes a life-changing choice; a hard-working middle-aged woman whose world is coming apart fights back with shocking vengeance.
Three Bullets To Queensland    by Rick Mofina
Price: $0.99 USD. 7280 words. Published on June 12, 2011. Fiction.
Before Ike Decker can realize his dream someone will die.
Blood Red Rings    by Rick Mofina
Price: $0.99 USD. 8270 words. Published on June 12, 2011. Fiction.
After 24 years of putting his life on the line, Officer Frank Harper sees it all tick down to one defining moment in this soul-wrenching short story.
Lightning Rider    by Rick Mofina
Price: $0.99 USD. 9420 words. Published on May 29, 2011. Fiction.
Twenty-six year-old Jessie Scout had endured a life steeped in pain. She had come to Las Vegas, a city of risk, not to gamble. But to collect. This short work won Canada's top literary prize for crime fiction, the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, presented by the Crime Writers of Canada.

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