Iris Johansen (born April 7, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer of

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, suspense fiction, and

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Career

Iris Johansen left a job as an airline reservations agent in the early 1980s to begin writing romance novels. She changed direction slightly and began writing historical romantic suspense novels in 1991 with the publication of ''The Wind Dancer''. She settled in to suspense writing as her main genre with the crime fiction thriller ''Ugly Duckling'', published in 1996 and soon after became a New York Times bestselling author.

Film adaptation

In 2011, the second novel in Johansen's Eve Duncan series was made in to a Lifetime film adaptation, '' The Killing Game'', starring

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as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan. This film adaptation was directed by Bobby Roth.

Awards

* 1996 Romantic Times Historical Romance Winner * 1999 Romantic Times Suspense Winner * 2016 Romantic Times Career Achievement - Thriller Winner

Personal life

Johansen lives in

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, and is married. Her son, Roy Johansen, is an

Edgar Award The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America which is based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards hon ...

-winning screenwriter and novelist. Iris and Roy have written the Kendra Michaels books series together. Her daughter, Tamara, contributes as her research assistant.

Works

Contemporary romance novels

* ''Stormy Vows'' (1983) * ''Tempest At Sea'' (1983) * ''Reluctant Lark'' (1983) * ''The Bronzed Hawk'' (1983) * ''The Lady and the Unicorn'' (1984) * ''Return to Santa Flores'' (1984) * ''No Red Roses'' (1984) * ''White Satin'' (1985) * ''Blue Velvet'' (1985) * ''The Forever Dream'' (December, 1985) * ''The Spellbinder'' (Louis Benoit) (1987) * ''Strong, Hot Winds'' (1988) * ''Wicked Jake Darcy'' (1989) * ''One Touch of Topaz'' (1990) * ''An Unexpected Song'' (1990) * ''Tender Savage'' (1990) * ''Winter Bride'' (1992) * ''Star-Spangled Bride'' (1993)

Historical romance

* ''Last Bridge Home'' (1992) * ''The Tiger Prince'' (January, 1993) * ''The Magnificent Rogue'' (September, 1993) * ''Midnight Warrior'' (August, 1994) *''The Beloved Scoundrel'' (September, 1994) * ''Dark Rider ''(May, 1995) * ''The Treasure ''(December, 2008)

Sedikhan Series

List of series * ''The Golden Barbarian'' (March, 1992) * ''The Golden Valkyrie'' (1984) * ''The Trustworthy Redhead'' (Louis Benoit) (1984) * ''Capture the Rainbow'' (1984) * ''Touch the Horizon'' (1984) * ''A Summer Smile'' (1985) * ''And the Desert Blooms'' (1986) * ''Always'' (1986) * ''Everlasting'' (1986) * ''Til the End of Time'' (1987) * ''Last Bridge Home'' (September, 1987) * ''Across the River of Yesterday'' (1987) * ''Starlight, Starbright'' (1988) * ''Man From Half Moon Bay'' (1988) * ''Blue Skies and Shining Promises'' (1988) * ''Magnificent Folly'' (1989) * ''Notorious'' (1990) * ''A Tough Man to Tame'' (1991)

Delaney Series

List of series * ''This Fierce Splendor'' (1988) * ''Wild Silver'' (1988) * ''Satin Ice'' (1988) * ''The Delaney Christmas Carol'' (1992) w/ Kay Hooper

The Delaneys of Killaroo Series

List of series * ''Matilda, the Adventuress'' (1987)

The Shamrock Trinity Series

List of series * ''York, The Renegade'' (1986)

Lion's Bride Series

List of series * ''Lion's Bride'' (February, 1996) * ''The Treasure'' (December, 2008)

The Wind Dancer series

* ''The Wind Dancer'' (February, 1991) * ''Storm Winds'' (June, 1991) * ''Reap the Wind'' (October, 1991/a completely revised edition came out in 2002) * ''Final Target'' (May, 2001)

Featuring Eve Duncan

# ''The Face of Deception'' (October 1998) # ''The Killing Game'' (September 1999) # ''The Search'' (June 2000) # ''Body of Lies'' (March 2002) # ''Dead Aim'' (April 2003) # ''Blind Alley'' (September 2004) # ''Countdown'' (May 2005) # ''Stalemate'' (December 2006) # ''Quicksand'' (April 2008) # ''Blood Game'' (October 2009) # ''Eight Days to Live'' (April 2010) # ''Chasing the Night'' (October 2010) # ''Eve'' (April 2011) # ''Quinn'' (July 2011) # ''Bonnie'' (October 2011) # ''Sleep No More'' (October 2012) # ''Taking Eve'' (April 2013) # ''Hunting Eve'' (July 2013) # ''Silencing Eve'' (October 2013) # ''Shadow Play'' (September 2015) # ''Hide Away'' (April 2016) # ''Night and Day'' (July 2016) # ''Mind Game'' (October 2017) # ''Shattered Mirror'' (April 2018) # ''Vendetta'' (October 2018) # ''Dark Tribute'' (March 2019) # ''Smokescreen'' (July 2019) # ''The Persuasion'' (June 2020) # ''The Bullet'' (June 2021) # ''A Face to Die For'' (June 2022) # ''Captive'' (September 2022) # ''The Survivor'' (June 2023)

Featuring Catherine Ling

# ''Chasing the Night'' (October, 2010) # ''What Doesn't Kill You'' (April, 2012) # ''Live to See Tomorrow'' (April, 2014) # ''Your Next Breath'' (April, 2015) # ''Vendetta'' (October, 2018)

Standalone novels

* ''The Ugly Duckling'' (May, 1996) * ''Long After Midnight'' (March, 1997) * ''And Then You Die...'' (January, 1998) * ''No One to Trust'' (October, 2002) * ''Fatal Tide'' (September, 2003) * ''Firestorm'' (March, 2004) * ''On The Run'' (December, 2005) * ''Killer Dreams'' (May, 2006) * ''Pandora's Daughter'' (October, 2007) * ''Dark Summer'' (October, 2008) * ''Deadlock'' (April, 2009) * ''The Perfect Witness'' (September, 2014) * ''No Easy Target'' (April, 2017) * ''Chaos'' (September, 2020) * ''On the Hunt'' (2024)

With Roy Johansen

Standalone

* ''Storm Cycle'' (July, 2009)

Featuring Hannah Bryson

# ''Silent Thunder'' (July, 2008) # ''Shadow Zone'' (July, 2010)

Featuring Kendra Michaels

# ''With Open Eyes'' (June, 2012) -book short story# ''Close Your Eyes'' (July, 2012) # ''Sight Unseen'' (July, 2014) # ''The Naked Eye'' (July, 2015) # ''Night Watch'' (October, 2016) # ''Look Behind You'' (July, 2017) # ''Double Blind'' (July, 2018) # ''Hindsight'' (January, 2020) # ''Blink of an Eye'' (February 2, 2021) # ''Killer View'' (2022) (written by Roy Johansen with a foreword by Iris Johansen) # ''More Than Meets The Eye'' (2023) # ''Flashback'' (2024) Mystery Sequels website, ''Iris Johansen Eve Duncan Series in Order''
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Johansen, Iris 1938 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American crime fiction writers American romantic fiction writers American women novelists Place of birth missing (living people) Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) American women romantic fiction writers Women crime fiction writers