About the Author

I am Gretchen Collins, a novelist writing mostly psychological thrillers and suspenseful why-dunits. Hello there and welcome! Thank you for taking the effort to search me out.

I, perhaps like you, have always liked a good mystery. As a kid I watched MathNet on PBS and Murder She Wrote. And I can still perfectly hear Edward Gorey’s bound woman cry out for help while draped over a wall during the intro to Masterpiece’s Mystery! My first reading obsession was the alphabet series by Sue Grafton. I started reading them as an impressionable fifth grader. 

I also might have a natural predilection toward the vaguely macabre. On childhood vacations, my parents would often take us to the town cemetery to wander. I once declared that we should “dig ’em up to see what they look like.” (To be clear, I’m pretty sure at that age I thought I would see cool old-timey dresses and important-enough-to-be-buried-with jewels. And yes, maybe a grizzly bullet hole or some broken bones too.)

And now as a grown-up, my favorite reads are twisty thrillers, suspenseful who-dunits, and gripping psychological dramas. I listen to true-crime and history podcasts (especially when they delve deep into mysteries and motives). And I even sometimes indulge in those campy true-crime “documentaries” that no streaming service can resist.