About
Tj O’Connor is the award-winning author of The Hemingway Deception, The Consultant, and four paranormal murder mysteries. His current works, The Whisper Legacy and Dying With A Secret (along with The Dead Detective Casefiles #1-3) will be released in 2024-2025.
Tj is an international security consultant specializing in anti-terrorism, investigations, and threat analysis—life experiences that drive his novels. With his former life as a government agent and years as a consultant, he has lived and worked around the world in places like Greece, Turkey, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and throughout the Americas—among others. Tj is a Harley pilot, a man-about-dogs, and a lover of adventure and cooking.
He was raised in New York's Hudson Valley and lives with his wife and Labrador companions in Virginia where they raised five children who are providing a growing brood of grands.
Featured Work
The Whisper Legacy
Curran’s enemies thought he was dead.
They were wrong.
He thought his past was left on the Voula Beach Road.
He was wrong.
Now, that nightmare is drawing his enemies out.
The halls of power are being targeted—but by who?
Is the secret of the Voula Beach Road behind the chaos?
Curran knows the answer.
It’s all in The Whisper Legacy . . .
Marlowe “Lowe” Curran was once a freelance intelligence operative swashbuckling around the world—until Greece—until the Voula Beach Road. There, he lost everything and nearly his life. Now, he’s a luckless, aging PI living on guilt and nightmares—barely paying his rent if not for Tommy Astor, a well-connected Washington powerbroker. Curran becomes a suspect in the murder of a philandering husband. He has an alibi—but that will get him arrested. Is committing crimes trying to resolve other crimes still a crime? For Curran it is, especially after he’s a suspect in two murders. Chasing the real killer, Curran is haunted by his demons from the Voula Beach Road, and something called Whisper. On his trail is an angry, vengeful US Deputy Marshal, gun-happy assassins, and a shadowy figure thwarting Curran’s every success. For each step forward, there’s another threat, another roadblock, another piece of evidence stacking up against him. Whisper is at the center of his nightmares—whatever Whisper is. Is Whisper why Charlie Cantrell had to die? Why are bodies dropping across Washington? Why the President’s short list for running mates is getting shorter? Faced with old foes and aided by his last surviving Voula Beach friend, Curran must stay ahead of the assassins, rescue a kidnapped little girl, and find the deadly secrets hidden within The Whisper Legacy.
Other Works
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Dying With A Secret
2025
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The Hemingway Deception
2023
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The Consultant
2018
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New Sins for Old Scores
2017
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Dying To Tell
2016
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Dying for the Past
2015
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Dying to Know
2014
Awards and Recognition
- 2024 American Legacy Award Winner—Political Thrillers 2019 American Fiction Award Winner—Political Thrillers 2019 American Fiction Award Winner—Mystery/Suspense 2019 Gold Medal Winner—Readers Favorite Book Awards 2018 Gold Medal Winner—Military Writer’s Society of America 2015 Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) for mysteries
