K J McGillick

K. J. McGillick spent thirty years as an attorney, and seventeen years before that as a nurse. The legal thrillers and psychological suspense novels she writes are not researched. They are remembered. The courtrooms in her books are real courtrooms. The cross-examinations follow the rhythm of cross-examinations she has lived through. The medical details — the dosing, the pharmacology, the autopsies, the clinical wrongness that signals a body did not die the way it was meant to — come from a career spent watching patients live and die.

She is the author of more than thirty books, organized into several active series:

Legal thrillers and psychological suspense:

The Jordan Monroe legal thriller series — a former prosecutor turned defense attorney who left the DA's office when the pressure to convict began to outweigh the evidence

The Mary Cormier universe (A Path of Deception and Betrayal) — eight interconnected novels of art crime, family secrets, and money laundering

The Art of Deception trilogy — standalone-readable thrillers within the same shared world

The Threads of Destiny — a paranormal suspense duology

Her work has been described as gripping, forensically precise, and morally complicated, in the tradition of John Grisham, Lisa Scottoline, Robert Dugoni, and Steve Cavanagh.

She uses international travel as immersive research, has a particular fascination with art world financial crime, lives with a cat who insists on being involved in every manuscript revision, and believes that the best legal thrillers are not the ones where justice prevails — but the ones where justice costs something.