Ann Grey

Ann Grey writes thrillers. She is an introverted recluse, an animal lover, an avid gardener of anything veggie, and an imperfect perfectionist. She lives with two Great Pyrenees dogs in North Texas and, when not writing, spends her days vacuuming up scads of hair. She is also a former CPA–who no longer cares about balancing her debits and credits–and has collected multiple college degrees, some of them actually worthwhile. Ann is also retired from the military.

Grey loves thrillers with a complex plot, those that make her think outside her comfort zone. Her debut novel, Counsel of Deceit, a legal thriller, took over twenty years to write, edit, and polish because it’s more than a cut-and-dried legal thriller. The complicated plot was designed to share with the reader the fears and motivations behind employees’ and employers’ actions in a sexual harassment case. Counsel of Deceit attempts to show what happens to the other employees in the workplace when one employee rocks the boat, really rocks the boat. From her experience in the corporate world, where successful sailing too often requires the skills of a sociopath, a narcissist, or perhaps just a very desperate person, Grey found that more than a few employees will hang on to the railings (the culture, the status quo) for dear life, and will grasp on to alternate truths as if they were life preservers, and will do almost anything to protect their egos, their jobs, and their futures. (Just an observation, not a judgment.) She uses that experience to develop her characters.