Ryan Steck is the author of Fields of Fire, Lethal Range, Redd Christmas, Out for Blood, and Ted Bell's Monarch, an Alex Hawke thriller. He's also the founder and editor in chief of The Real Book Spy website and an official Amazon Influencer. Praised as "one of the hardest-working and fairest reviewers out there" (author Lisa Scottoline), Steck is considered by some as "the authority on mysteries and thrillers" (author A. J. Tata). Steck's fourth Matthew Redd novel, Gone Dark, is due out in 2025.