CJ Lyons – How I Met My Detective
I first met FBI Agent Caitlyn Tierney while writing BLIND FAITH, a
story I thought she would play a minor role in.
Should have known better. Caitlyn doesn’t follow the rules – not even mine.
The first scene I wrote with her, she was in her office at the FBI Academy at Quantico, fighting a severe migraine secondary to a traumatic brain injury that she suffered while on a case.
That pretty much sums up Caitlyn: she’s going to get the job done, no matter what. Throw her out a window, give her emergency brain surgery, post-op rehab, severe migraines . . . it’s all in a day’s work. Once she’s committed to a case – or a cause – she will not give up.
As I wrote her, I didn’t think about all the tough-guy thriller characters out there. Men who get stabbed, slugged, shot, concussed, and still have enough stamina to knock out the bad guys and have sex with the pretty girl.
No. Instead, I remembered the real life women I’d met while working in the ER and what I’d seen them endure.
A colleague who had spinal meningitis (one of the most painful and debilitating diseases imaginable) and yet she kept working, wheeling an IV pump with her as she saw patients in our overwhelmed, understaffed ER until someone could relieve her.
A twelve-year-old girl, battered and bleeding, who insisted on talking to the cops so they could find and arrest the men who assaulted her before they went after her little sister like they’d threatened.
Too many mothers to count who, after a car crash, demanded I take care of their children before them, triage rules be damned.
That’s the kind of toughness Caitlyn has. Mental, physical, emotional stamina that allows her to face the worst nightmares imaginable.
Of course she’s afraid – she’s only human. But she’ll never, ever surrender to those fears. Even if it means breaking all the rules and risking her job . . . or her life.
That makes her difficult to live with – sometimes even to like – but she’s the first person you’d call if you ever needed someone to fight for you or your loved ones. Because you can trust her to get the job done.
Black Sheep, the new thriller featuring Caitlyn Tierney, is available exclusively in ebook now.
A young girl is taken. A father is silenced. The lies run deep.
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It's the one mystery Supervisory Special Agent Caitlyn Tierney has never solved: her father's suicide after he had to arrest his best friend for murder. It drove Caitlyn to become one of the FBI's best - and most unorthodox - agents.
So when the man she holds responsible for her father's death pleads her assistance in finding his missing daughter, Caitlyn is horrified. But, as whispers of half-understood conversations from her childhood begin to come back to her, the agent inside Caitlyn must admit that something doesn't feel right.
Her search brings her back to her North Carolina hometown, now vibrant with new money, old lies, and an unknown enemy who will do anything to keep Caitlyn from the learning the truth . . .
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Praise for THE CAITLYN TIERNEY SERIES:
'Everything a great thriller should be - action packed, authentic and intense' LEE CHILD
'A compelling new voice in thriller writing . . . I love how the characters come alive on every page' JEFFERY DEAVER
'A pulse-pounding adrenalin rush!' LISA GARDNER
'Tense, whip-smart' TESS GERRITSEN
'Tinged with a compelling sense of dread' DAILY MAIL
