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Taylor Stevens is the American New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of mystery and thriller novels.

Her award-winning and critically acclaimed Vanessa Michael Munroe Series has been published in over 20 languages, selling several copies across the globe.

An all but testosterone blend of Jason Bourne and Jack Reacher, the thriller series has even been optioned for motion picture adaptation by James Cameron’s production company, Lightstorm Entertainment.

Born into a doomsday cult and brought up in communes all over the world, Taylor picked up fiction writing quite late in life, primarily because she was denied an education beyond 6th grade and spent her adolescence in child labor.

She now happily writes from her home in Dallas, Texas.

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Genres: Mystery, Thriller

United States

Website: https://www.taylorstevensbooks.com/

Jack and Jill Mystery

  1. Liars' Paradox (2018)
  2. Liars' Legacy (2019)

Vanessa Michael Munroe

  1. The Informationist (2011)
  2. The Innocent (2011)
  3. The Doll (2012)
  4. The Vessel: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novella (2014)
  5. The Catch (2014)
  6. The Mask (2015)
Jack and Jill Mystery

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Jack and Jill Mystery

Liars' Paradox

A brother and sister who were raised to deceive—and trained to kill...

From earliest memory they’ve been taught to hide, to hunt, to survive. Jack and Jill, feuding twins who can never stop running. Clare, mentor more than mother, steeped them in the art of espionage, honed their skills in weaponry, surveillance, and sabotage. But as they grew older they came to question her motives, her methods—and her sanity...

Now twenty-six, the twins are trying to lead normal lives. But when Clare goes missing, they realize her paranoid delusions are real. A twisted trail from the CIA to the KGB will lead them to an underground network of global assassins where hunters become the hunted.

Where everyone wants them dead...

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2018
Ebook: B07WXLZ73G
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Liars' Legacy

They were born in the shadows. Schooled in espionage. Taught to kill and trained to disappear.

The assassin broker is dead. The power void has left the network he controlled without restraints, and the world’s deadliest killers free to pursue their own vendettas and political agendas. The United States government, unwilling to risk upheaval and global chaos, has mobilized killers of its own to preemptively hunt down and destroy each potential threat.

Among the most dangerous on that list are Jack and Jill.

Often estranged—always connected by a legacy they can’t escape—the siblings have eluded many who want them dead. As they board a flight to Berlin hoping to meet the father they’ve never known, they suspect a trap. What they can’t predict is how far a high-level Russian operation will go to secure their skills, or how hard the U.S. operatives sent to stop them will fight to assassinate them first. 

For the twins, resistance and cooperation both mean death.

Caught between two superpowers with unlimited resources and unable to trust each other, brother and sister will match wit against skill in a life-threatening chase across Europe, back to the United States, and into an unholy alliance that could change the balance of global power forever.

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2019
Ebook: B07Q4LNQB2
Publisher: Kensington

Vanessa Michael Munroe

The Informationist

Governments pay her.

Criminals fear her.

Nobody sees her coming.

Vanessa “Michael” Munroe deals in information—expensive information—working for corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise.

Born to missionary parents in lawless central Africa, Munroe took up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew when she was just fourteen.

As his protégé, she earned the respect of the jungle's most dangerous men, cultivating her own reputation for years until something sent her running. After almost a decade building a new life and lucrative career from her home base in Dallas, she's never looked back.

Until now.

A Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. It’s not her usual line of work, but she can’t resist the challenge.

Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood, betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead.

If she has any hope of escaping the jungle and the demons that drive her, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget.

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0307717108
Publisher: Crown Pub
The Innocent

Eight years ago, five-year old Hannah was spirited out of school and into the closed world of a cult known as The Chosen. Ever since, followers of its leader have hidden the child and shielded her abductor.

Now, childhood survivors of The Chosen who have escaped to make a life for themselves on the outside know here to find Hannah and turn to Vanessa Michael Munroe for help. Munroe reluctantly takes the job, and travels to Buenos Aires to infiltrate the cult and save the girl.

Inducted in to a world unlike anything she has faced before, Munroe must navigate unpredictable members and their dangerous cohorts, the impatient survivors who hired her, and the struggle against her own increasingly violent nature so she can rescue the child before the window of opportunity closes and Hannah is lost forever.

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2011
ISBN: 978-0307717139
Publisher: Crown Pub
The Doll

Haunted by a life of violence and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and hunter, has built her life on a reputation for getting things done—dangerous and often not-quite-legal things.

The ability to survive, fight, adapt, and blend has since taken her across the globe on behalf of corporations, heads of state, and the few private clients who can afford her unique brand of expertise, and these abilities have made her enemies.

On a busy Dallas street, Munroe is kidnapped by an unseen opponent and thrust into an underground world where women and girls are merchandise and a shadowy figure known as The Doll Maker controls her every move.

While trusted friends race to find her, everything pivots on one simple choice: Munroe must use her unique set of skills to deliver a high-profile young woman into the same nightmare that she once endured, or condemn to torture and certain death the one person she loves above all else.

In this high-octane thriller, Munroe will have to fight fast, smart, and furious to overcome a dangerous nemesis and deliver her trademark brand of justice.

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-0307888808
Publisher: Crown Pub
The Vessel: A Vanessa Michael Munroe Novella

Some people were easy to find. Others took hunting and patience. 

The most difficult was a target who knew she was coming, and he knew. How could he not? When you backed a predator into a corner, when you took and destroyed all that she loved, when you made a game of ruining lives and sadism for you was sport, but then you failed to kill the predator: you’d better know she was coming back.

This was an inviolable law. She wasn’t dead, and so she was coming for him. She had his face, had the name of a city. In the right hands, anything could be mined into so much more. She would find him. Kill him. Simple as that.

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2014
Ebook: B00K4C3RO0
Publisher: Crown Pub
The Catch

Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done—often dangerous and not quite legal things.

With blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt, Munroe has fled to Djibouti, Africa. There, with no responsibility except a gig at a small maritime security company, Munroe finds stillness—until she’s pressured to work as an armed guard on a ship bound for Kenya.

On board, Munroe discovers the contract is merely cover for gunrunning; when the ship is invaded off the Somali coast, she fights her way out—dragging the unconscious captain with her.

But nothing about the hijacking is what it seems. The pirates had come for the captain, and continuing their pursuit, they unwittingly raise the killer’s instinct Munroe has tried so hard to bury.

Wounded and on the run, Vanessa Michael Munroe will use the life of her catch as bait and bartering chip to manipulate every player, and wash her conscience clean.

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2014
ISBN: 978-0385348959
Publisher: Crown Pub
The Mask

Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done: dangerous and not quite legal things that have taken her undercover into some of the world’s deadliest places.

Still healing from a Somali hijacking gone wrong and a brutal attack that left her near death, Munroe joins her lover, Miles Bradford, in Japan where he’s working as a security consultant protecting high-value technology from industrial espionage.

In the domesticity of their routine she finds long sought-after peace—until Bradford is arrested for murder, and the same interests who targeted him come after her, too.

Searching for answers and fighting to stay alive, Munroe will soon discover how far she’ll go to save Bradford from spending the next twenty years in locked-up isolation; how many laws she’ll break when the truth seems worse than his lies; and who to trust and who she must kill. Because she’s a strategist and hunter with a predator’s instincts, and the man she loves has just stabbed her in the back.  

Author: Taylor Stevens
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-0385348980
Publisher: Crown Pub