Shane Gericke is an American novelist originally from Illinois, who currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona."Drums, bagpipes will signal a book signing" - Naperville Sun Before becoming a published thriller writer, he was a journalist, most prominently at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1982 to 1994.Mediakit on Gericke Website "The Setting Sun-Times" - Bloomberg BusinessWeek"How I Got Published: Famous Authors Tell You in Their Own Words" - Google Books

Gericke's novels Gericke's first three novels star Naperville police officer Emily Thompson. His 2015 novel The Fury introduced Chicago police detective Sue Davis. After a long absence, Gericke returned with a new novel in 2025, Ocean Of Bones

Novels Blown Away, 2006. .Also published in German, Turkish, Slovak, and Chinese translations. "Author gleans insight from Naperville officers" - Daily Herald Cut to the Bone, 2007. ."'Lipstick and steel'" - Chicago Sun-Times Torn Apart, 2010."Torn Apart" - Google Books The Fury, 2015. Ocean of Bones, 2025.https://shanegericke.com/ocean-of-bones/https://books.google.ca/books/about/Ocean_of_Bones.html?id=LUh40QEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

Some Gericke bibliographies include a 1998 novel called Crusade. This book was sold and assigned an ISBN, but the publisher went bankrupt before any copies were printed, and the book has never actually seen publication.

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