About
Short Version:
Alex Finlay is the bestselling author of several acclaimed novels, including the 2024 national bestseller, If Something Happens to Me. His work regularly appears on best-of-the-year lists and has been translated into twenty-five languages and sold around the world. Nearly all of Alex’s books have been optioned or are in development for film and television. His next novel, Parents Weekend, releases in May 2025.
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, and his latest release, USA Today Bestseller, If Something Happens to Me. His work has been an Indie Next pick, a LibraryReads selection, an Amazon Editor’s Best Thriller, 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 What Have We Done, which was recently was acquired by Village Roadshow Pictures, the producer of the Ocean 11 series, Mystic River, among other major motion pictures.
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.
