Hank Phillippi Ryan

Emmy Award winning true crime reporter HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the USA Today bestselling author of 17 thrillers, including THE MURDER LIST and ONE WRONG WORD. Her upcoming novel is MOTHER DAUGHTER SISTER STRANGER, out September 1 from Minotaur Books. Mary Kubica says: "Ryan triumphs--readers will devour this in one sitting!"

Her current thriller is ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS, an instant USA Today bestseller, the 2026 Mary Higgins Clark Award winner, and now nominated for the 2026 Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Novel of the Year.

Her fiction is inspired by a lifetime of investigating true crime during her storied career as an on-air reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, where she was awarded multiple honors for her groundbreaking journalism, including an unprecedented 37 Emmy Awards. Her work has resulted in new laws, people sent to prison, homes removed from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in refunds and restitution for victims.

A TedX speaker and in-demand literary moderator, Hank was a founder of Mystery Writers of America University, and the past president of national Sisters in Crime. She is also a board member of International Thriller Writers.

A Chicago native with roots in Indianapolis, Ryan lives in Boston with her husband, a nationally renowned civil rights and criminal defense attorney.