About
Short Version:
Alex Finlay is the bestselling author of the 2021 breakout novel, Every Last Fear, the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery and Thriller, The Night Shift, the 2023 Library Reads Hall of Fame recipient, What Have We Done, and the 2024 blockbuster national bestseller, If Something Happens to Me. Alex’s novels are regularly on "best of the year" lists and have been translated into twenty-five languages and sold around the world. All of Alex’s books have been optioned, secured, or in development for film and television, and his May 2025 release, Parents Weekend, was an instant national bestseller and has already been scooped up by Hollywood for adaption to the screen. Alex lives in Washington, DC and Virginia.
Long Version:
Alex Finlay is a bestselling novelist who has been hailed as “one of the genre’s most exciting voices” (E! News) having “earned a reputation for producing suspenseful, fast-paced thrillers” (Associated Press).
His novels include the 2021 breakout, Every Last Fear, the 2022 Goodreads Choice nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller, The Night Shift, the 2023 LibraryReads Hall of Fame recipient, What Have We Done, the 2024 national bestseller, If Something Happens to Me, and his latest release the instant national bestseller, Parents Weekend. His work has been an Indie Next pick, a five-time LibraryReads selection, an Amazon Editor’s Best Thriller, a Barnes & Noble best mystery, as well as a Cosmopolitan, CNN, Newsweek, E!, BuzzFeed, Business Week, Goodreads, Parade, PopSugar, and Reader’s Digest best or most anticipated thrillers of the year.
Hollywood has scooped up rights to his work for adaptation to the screen, including his May 2025 release, Parents Weekend.
Finlay’s novels have been translated into twenty-five languages and are sold in countries around the world, including Denmark, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, to name a few.
Finlay, who writes under a pen name, is a magna cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School and a prominent Washington, D.C. lawyer who has represented clients in more than 40 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He lives in D.C. and Virginia.
