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Cat Connor is an author of mystery, thriller and crime fiction from New Zealand.

She works at Writers Plot Bookshop in Upper Hutt, New Zealand by day, where she answers questions from authors both new and seasoned, and by night turns the characters and storylines in her head into words.

Cat is credited to have published more than 1.4 million words.

She has featured on the Break it Down Show on several occasions, and always enjoys chatting with Pete about writing.

Some of her favorite things include: coffee, tequila, wine, traveling, enjoying the company of good friends, and listening to loud music—more so Bon Jovi, Rolling Stones, and music from the 60’s and 70’s.

Other than writing and working at Writers Plot Bookshop, Cat also teaches Crime Writing at Wellington High’s community education center during terms 1 and 4.

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Genres: Crime Suspense, Mystery, Thriller

New Zealand

Website: https://catconnor.com/

Byte Series

  1. Killerbyte (2009)
  2. Terrorbyte (2009)
  3. Exacerbyte (2011)
  4. Flashbyte (2012)
  5. Soundbyte (2013)
  6. Databyte (2014)
  7. Eraserbyte (2015)
  8. Psychobyte (2016)
  9. Metabyte (2017)
  10. Qubyte (2019)
  11. Cryptobyte (2019)
  12. Vaporbyte (2020)

Omnibus Books

  1. The Byte Series - Volume One (2019)
  2. The Byte Series - Volume Two (2019)
  3. The Byte Series - Volume Three (2019)
  4. The Byte Series - Volume Four (2021)

Veronica Tracey Spy/PI

  1. [Nothing happens here] (2021)
  2. [Lure the lie] (2021)
  3. [Leave a Message] (2022)

Detailed book overview

Byte Series

Killerbyte

A killer with a penchant for inventive and macabre deaths challenges an FBI Agent with an equally unusual imagination and sense of humor.

SA Ellie Conway works serial crime cases. When someone tries to kill her, it becomes obvious it's linked to her after-hours pursuits in cyberspace. Matters become complicated when her assailant is found dead in the trunk of her car.

Despite a plethora of crime scenes, no evidence can be found to identify a motive or perpetrator. The death toll rises and eventually includes those close to her. A chance remark provides the first real clue to unraveling the killer's twisted goals.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-1692141561
Publisher: Independently published
Terrorbyte

What is the connection between a series of murders, bourbon, chlorine, gold ribbon, the Pentagon and the Military, Eastern European terrorists and a book of poetry?

Special Agent Conway is back: wisecracking, kicking ass and using her psycho-prophetic talents. This time to grapple with a murderer with ulterior motives, secreted behind a series of grotesque crimes.

Confronted with outlandish connections and the realization that the issues are global, Conway is forced to seek help from the highest level to close borders, airports, train stations and military bases. The denouement leaves Ellie facing a shocking truth and a grievous loss.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2009
ISBN: 978-1692172534
Publisher: Independently published
Exacerbyte

Hawk is hunting again. SSA Conway is his nemesis – she wants justice. He has taken too many children, killed too many people. FBI Agent SSA Conway has decided it is time to stop Hawk, not only to prevent the abduction of vulnerable children but to avenge the murder of an FBI agent.

As Conway and Delta A team prepare to pursue Hawk in Russia, he moves to New Zealand to widen his net. A terrible and sinister reality emerges, demanding the might of the Military, CIA, NCIS and the Russian FSB.

Exploiting her remarkable intuition, together with help from unlikely sources, Conway realizes she must heed the augury ‘it is all about the music.’

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0615983318
Publisher: Rebel ePublishers
Flashbyte

As if a terrifying nightmare wasn’t bad enough, being woken from it with the news that she’d been strangled in a parking lot didn’t make for a great start to the day for FBI Agent Ellie Conway.

Extraordinary and bizarre packages delivered to her home, a sniper aiming for her – twice in one day – and a vehicle that looks like Swiss cheese, tends to make a girl lose her sense of humor. More mistaken-identity deaths, bank robberies, a hospital murderer, an unexpected cold case, and a rendition to a black site, conspire to demand more than the usual amount of kickass determination required of SSA Conway.

Ghosts from the past, forcing themselves into her present life, with vengeance on their minds, threaten Conway and the lives of others, reminding her of the fragility of memory.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-1692175702
Publisher: Independently published
Soundbyte

How unlucky can the Bleich family be? Four out of five murdered on the same day…the obvious link being the Heathcote Diamonds, reputed to be cursed.

SSA Conway is not having a great time either: she is shot when all she wanted was a good cup of coffee. NCIS Director Doyle’s sister is abducted by an international hitman who proves to have intriguing connections.

The appearance of Mac’s doppelganger is a profound shock and Mac’s ghost resurrects Elllie’s smothered rage. CIA Agent Jonathan Tierney surfaces too often for peace of mind and then her daughter, Carla, raises the teenage stakes causing Ellie’s psycho-prophetic alarms to go into overdrive.

When FBI Director O’Hare, NCIS Director Doyle and NCIS Agent Noel Gerrard go missing at the same time, Ellie recognizes there are malign and subversive forces behind these ‘random’ events.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2013
ISBN: 978-1692177119
Publisher: Independently published
Databyte

When information becomes misinformation, how much of what you see should you believe?

Wanted for a murder she didn’t commit and on the run from the FBI and Metro, Special Agent Ellie Conway has to protect an actor with close ties to Delta A from a serious threat as well as trying to clear her name.

Unwittingly, whilst staying off the grid, Ellie stumbles upon a syndicate which has alarming connections to her daughter’s death – and which abducts her team, with the intent of killing them, and Ellie.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-1692843243
Publisher: Independently published
Eraserbyte

Washington D.C. is burning, blowing up before SSA Ellie Conway’s eyes. More than ever she needs her controversial connections to prevent more terror attacks and horrifying deaths.

Surveillance footage mysteriously wiped away, explosions rocking the city, people blown apart, an insider forging Ellie’s signature to release suspects, and her helicopter taken down, all challenge Delta A to find the link between the terror attacks, international trade in missing girls, coded price lists and a rogue Interpol agent.

Supported by the new man in her life, Ellie puts the pieces of the puzzle in place, striving to defy time limits which will end a girl’s life.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1693696787
Publisher: Independently published
Psychobyte

Another day, another death, might not be unusual in FBI Agent Ellie Conway’s world but a baffling series of naked, bloodless, blondes in pristine showers makes her wonder if she is dealing with a genuine vampire.

Investigating the deaths of these women, Ellie is surprised when clairsentience is added to her remarkable armory of psycho-prophetic talents. Secrets emerge as she races to find a killer with a particular and gruesome agenda.

Mounting bodies, escalating pressure, a sinister connection between the art world, the Darknet and the FBI, an impending wedding, peculiar liaisons, and a personal shock challenge Ellie and the Delta A team.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2016
ISBN: 978-1692140410
Publisher: Independently published
Metabyte

Her niece is abducted and her in-laws disappear. Long-deceased agents turn up in garages across the city - dead again. No wonder SSA Ellie Iverson’s internal alert goes off the scale.

Enigmatic clues and codes from a missing colleague and brother-in-law about the seepage of sensitive FBI data, lead to the sudden death of a team member and leave Delta A spinning. Two new agents, with special talents akin to Ellie’s, join the team and ramp her alarm sensors even higher. Her niece’s social media life offers clues to a horrifying network and its activities.

Working under a directive from the Director of the FBI and with the Wayward Son Protocol, Ellie and Delta A work to disentangle leads from the darknet, stem the flow of death, and bring her family home.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2017
ISBN: 978-0473497422
Publisher: 9mm Press
Qubyte

Flu season is in full swing, surrounded by germs and illness, SSA Ellie Iverson reacts like any new mom, with hand sanitizer at the ready and a desire to keep away from anti-vaxers. Her newly hatched germaphobia escalates when Delta A is asked to investigate animal rights activists and a missing laboratory monkey. An incident in Lexington, Virginia leaves the Director of the FBI fighting for her life.

A sudden violent death of colleague in Washington, the discovery of a spate of deaths linked to the Intelligence Community, herald the arrival of an old friend from the UK with news of a potential global disaster. With biker gangs, drugs, grudges, and a plethora of ‘accidental’ deaths in the mix, this is no ordinary flu season.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-0473464806
Publisher: 9mm Press
Cryptobyte

In charge of all three Delta teams and still in the field with Delta A while juggling twin toddlers, Special Agent in Charge Ellie Iverson tackles life, cases, and endless meetings with arrant determination and sometimes with her growing psycho-prophetic skill set.

Approached by a police officer in Missouri for help with two, seemingly unrelated, missing family cases, SAC Iverson agrees to offer assistance. That event cued a series of cryptic text messages, an added twist to an unfolding situation with a long reach and unsettling ramifications.

Before Ellie could take a breath an old friend approached her with a gripping dilemma that snowballs into two overlapping occurrences. When everything collides Ellie is left reeling at the length in which people will go to get what they want.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-0473489045
Publisher: 9mm Press
Vaporbyte

A botched kidnapping leads the FBI’s Delta A and SAC Ellie Iverson down a dark scientific path, littered with intrigue, assassinations, mysterious foreigners, and sketchy connections.

On SAC Ellie Iverson’s plate: birthday prep for her twins; an attempted abduction; pressure from her husband to retire from the FBI; a missing accountant, and an American company with a nefarious off-shore agenda that could devastate the world.

Within hours of trying to contact a whistle-blower, she discovers a murdered British scientist and is in the crosshairs of an assassin. A confidential informant from the scientific community reaches out and twists the emerging situation in a worrisome way.

Ellie hauls together a partial plan but in a world littered with intrigue, contract killers, in-fighting intelligence agencies, and suspect connections, can they work together to prevent catastrophe?

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2020
Ebook: B089W3X41H
Publisher: 9mm Press

Omnibus Books

The Byte Series - Volume One

The first 3 books in the byte series with introductions and a bonus short story by Cat Connor.

Killerbyte

A killer with a penchant for inventive and macabre deaths challenges an FBI Agent with an unusual imagination and sense of humor.

Terrorbyte

Special Agent Ellie Conway is back: wisecracking, kicking ass and using her psycho-prophetic talents. This time to grapple with a murderer with ulterior motives, secreted behind a series of grotesque crimes.

Exacerbyte

Hawk is hunting again - SSA Ellie Conway is his nemesis.

Hawk has taken too many children, killed too many people. It is time to stop Him, not only to prevent the abduction of vulnerable children but to avenge the murder of an FBI agent.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B081J3YVKN
Publisher: 9mm Press
The Byte Series - Volume Two

The second 3 books in the byte series with introductions by Cat Connor and a bonus short story.

Flashbyte

As if a terrifying nightmare wasn’t bad enough, being woken from it with the news that she’d been strangled in a parking lot didn’t make for a great start to the day for FBI Agent Ellie Conway.

Soundbyte

How unlucky can the Bleich family be? Four out of five murdered on the same day … the obvious link being the Heathcote Diamonds, reputed to be cursed. SSA Ellie Conway is not having a great time either: she is shot when all she wanted was a good cup of coffee.

Databyte

When information becomes misinformation, how much of what you see should you believe? Wanted for a murder she didn’t commit and on the run from the FBI and Metro, Special Agent Ellie Conway has to protect an actor with close ties to Delta A from a serious threat as well as trying to clear her name.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B081JCKWY8
Publisher: 9mm Press
The Byte Series - Volume Three

The third 3 books in the byte series with introductions by Cat Connor and a bonus short story: Heard it Through the Grapevine.

Eraserbyte

Washington D.C. is burning, blowing up before SSA Ellie Conway’s eyes. More than ever she needs her controversial connections to prevent more terror attacks and horrifying deaths.

Psychobyte

Another day, another death, might not be unusual in FBI Agent Ellie Conway’s world but a baffling series of naked, bloodless, blondes in pristine showers makes her wonder if she is dealing with a genuine vampire.

Metabyte

Her niece is abducted and her in-laws disappear. Long-deceased agents turn up in garages across the city - dead again. Working under a directive from the Director of the FBI and with the Wayward Son Protocol, Ellie and Delta A work to disentangle leads from the darknet, stem the flow of death, and bring her family home.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B081JCJRN6
Publisher: 9mm Press
The Byte Series - Volume Four

Inside this volume you will find; Qubyte, Cryptobyte, and Vaporbyte including the alternate ending, along with intro to each story.

Qubyte

With the enemy taking out her friends and colleagues, Ellie’s inner circle has never been tighter.

Flu season is in full swing, surrounded by germs and illness, SSA Ellie Iverson reacts like any new mom, with hand sanitizer at the ready and a desire to keep away from anti-vaxers. Her newly hatched germaphobia escalates when Delta A is asked to investigate animal rights activists and a missing laboratory monkey.

An incident in Lexington, Virginia leaves the Director of the FBI fighting for her life.

Cryptobyte

SAC Iverson and Delta A follow cryptic strands of information regarding missing families to an astonishing conclusion.

Truck hijackings, missing families, stolen chemicals, distinctive photographs, cryptic text messages, an unimaginable hobby, and a friend with a curious dilemma.

Life is never straightforward for FBI Special Agent Ellie Iverson and the Delta teams. Juggling twin toddlers and a new position as Special Agent in Charge of Delta, Ellie answers a request for help from a Missouri police officer which calls into play her extraordinary skill set and arrant determination to find the truth and protect the vulnerable.

Vaporbyte

A botched kidnapping leads the FBI’s Delta A and SAC Ellie Iverson down a dark path;

littered with intrigue; assassinations; mysterious foreigners; and sketchy connections.

On SAC Ellie Iverson’s plate: birthday prep for her twins; an attempted abduction; pressure from her husband to retire from the FBI; a missing accountant, and an American company with a nefarious off-shore agenda that could devastate the world.

Within hours of trying to contact a whistle-blower, she discovers a murdered British scientist and is in the crosshairs of an assassin. A confidential informant from the scientific community reaches out and twists the emerging situation in a worrisome way.

Will Ellie prevent a catastrophe?

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2021
Ebook: B09JMQQMPX
Publisher: 9mm Press

Veronica Tracey Spy/PI

[Nothing happens here]

“I have a knack for finding the unfindable. I spun my chair again. There had to be something funky going on for Reede to make that call. My mind wandered back to when I left the Service and founded my own business. It’s not entirely my business. It’s a partnership. Stephanie takes care of the accounts and keeps things running, when she’s not watching the cricket, rugby, or answering the fire pager. Then there is Jennifer, she is the other full time investigator and a volunteer fire fighter like Stephanie. We do regular PI type things that include security work for companies, drug testing, loss prevention, and investigations into suspected sabotage/foul play. As well as that, there are always the unfaithful spouse cases that keep bread on the table and coffee in our pots. And I do some occasional locating work for various government agencies.”

[Nothing happens here] is set in Upper Hutt, New Zealand – where nothing happens, or does it?

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-0473557577
Publisher: 9mm Press
[Lure the lie]

In New Zealand indefinitely and finally out from behind a desk and back in the field, Australian intelligence officer Dave Crocker (aka Crockett) is tasked with locating a missing cryptographer, Tania Bateman. His boss decided that Crockett should work with a private investigator Veronica Tracey (Ronnie).

Ronnie’s specialty is finding people. Crockett’s specialty is solving problems.

The mysteries surrounding the missing woman and her whereabouts prior to her disappearance pose quandaries for Crockett, and don’t make Ronnie’s job any easier. As they attempt to peel back the layers of deception it becomes apparent that the lies are protecting something and they have a decision to make.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-0473571542
Publisher: 9mm Press
[Leave a Message]

In Upper Hutt, New Zealand, a smallish city in the Wellington Region, there is a private investigation agency called, Wherefore Art Thou, with a reputation for excellence.

The agency is run by Veronica (Ronnie) Tracey and her two best friends: Steph and Jenn.

Domestic cases keep their lights on and door open, but the extracurricular activities Ronnie performs for various intelligence agencies makes sure they have all the latest tech, and a healthy bank balance.

Former intelligence officer, Ronnie Tracey, specializes in finding people.

Australian intelligence officer, Dave (Crockett) Crocker, is skilled at making problems disappear.

American intelligence officer, and actor, Ben Reynolds’ strength, is in gathering intelligence.

All three are drawn into a potential crisis by a single word message.

Exodus.

The message takes them off the grid and drops them into a situation involving a missing New Zealand Army intelligence officer, and the sudden death of Crockett’s boss. The circumstances surrounding the missing officer, and the death, tests their collective expertise and propels them down a treacherous path that no one would expect to navigate on New Zealand soil.

Meanwhile, Ronnie’s Nana, and the Cronies of Doom, have plans of their own and the potential for overlap and disaster is high.

Author: Cat Connor
First Release: 2022
Ebook: B09X3SQZNN
Publisher: 9mm Press