CHRIS PAVONE’s international thrillers include THE EXPATS, winner of both the Edgar and Anthony Awards; most recently the instant bestseller TWO NIGHTS IN LISBON; and forthcoming in May 2025, THE DOORMAN. His novels have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and IndieNext; have won or been shortlisted for Edgar, Anthony, Strand, Macavity, and ThrillerFest awards, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; are in development for film and television; and have been translated into two dozen languages.

He has written for outlets including the New York Times Book Review and Magazine, the Telegraph, and Salon; has appeared on Face the Nation, Good Day New York, All Things Considered, and the BBC; and has been profiled on the arts’ front page of the New York Times. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America, for which he has served as an Edgars judge, and sits on the Authors Guild Council.

Chris grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Midwood High School and Cornell University, and worked in publishing for nearly two decades at Dell Magazines, Doubleday, the Lyons Press, Regan/HarperCollins, Clarkson Potter, and Artisan/Workman, in positions ranging from copy editor and managing editor to executive editor and deputy publisher; he also wrote a (mostly blank) book about wine, and ghost-wrote a couple of nonfiction books. Then his wife got a job in Luxembourg, and the family moved abroad, where Chris raised their twin boys and started writing THE EXPATS. They now live again in New York City and on the North Fork of Long Island with a Labradoodle named Wally.