Throughout his career, Gregg Olsen has demonstrated an ability to create a detailed narrative that offers readers fascinating insights into the lives of people caught in extraordinary circumstances. A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Olsen has written ten nonfiction books, ten novels, and contributed a short story to a collection edited by Lee Child. The award-winning author has been a guest on dozens of national and local television shows, including educational programs for the History Channel, Learning Channel, and Discovery Channel. He has also appeared on Good Morning America, The Early Show, The Today Show, FOX News; CNN, Anderson Cooper 360, MSNBC, Entertainment Tonight, CBS 48 Hours, Oxygen’s Snapped, Court TV’s Crier Live, Inside Edition, Extra, Access Hollywood, and A&E’s Biography. In addition to television and radio appearances, the award-winning author has been featured in Redbook, USA Today, People, Salon magazine, Seattle Times, Los Angeles Times and the New York Post. The Deep Dark was named Idaho Book of the Year by the ILA and Starvation Heights was honored by Washington’s Secretary of State for the book’s contribution to Washington state history and culture. Olsen, a Seattle native, lives in Olalla, Washington with his wife and Suri (a mini dachshund so spoiled she wears a sweater).
Series
Books
The Girl in the Woods
2014
The Weight of Silence
2018
If Loving You Is Wrong
The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau
1999
Dying to Be Her
2012
Stillwater Island
2021
The Boy She Left Behind
2017
American Mother
The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood, and the Cyanide Murders That Shook the World
1993
Victim Six
2010
Death of a Cheerleader
2014
If I Can't Have You
Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
2014
A Cold Dark Place
2007
A True Crime Collection
Abandoned Prayers, A Twisted Faith, and Cruel Deception
2016
The Sound of Rain
2016
Out of the Woods
A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
2025
Bloody Sequins
2014
If You Tell
A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
2019
Shocking True Story
2013
Her Lover's Wife
2014
Unnatural Causes
2014
Heart of Ice
2009
The Deadly Daughter-in-Law
2014
Lying Next to Me
2019
A Twisted Faith
A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
2010
Abandoned Prayers
The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
1990
The Girl on the Run
2014
The Stranger and the World's Bravest Little Girl
2013
The Amish Wife
2023
Cougar Point
2024
Sex. Murder. Mystery.
2013
Starvation Heights
A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
1997
American Black Widow
2023
The Hive
2021
The Confessions of an American Black Widow
A True Story of Greed, Lust and a Murderous Wife
1998
Closer Than Blood
2011
Taken in the Night
2011
Now That She's Gone
2015
Envy
2011
Cruel Deception
1995
A Killing in Amish Country
Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder
2016
The Deep Dark
Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
2005
The Boy Who Fired The First Shot
2013
Water's Edge
2020
The Bone Box
2012
Snow Creek
2019
Fundamental Love
2014
Final Victim
2025
The Amish Schoolhouse Murders
2014
The Last Thing She Ever Did
2018
Silent Ridge
2020
I Know Where You Live
2022
Angel of Death
2014
Dangerous Dozen
2017
A Wicked Snow
2007
Just Try To Stop Me
2016
Fear Collector
2011
Overkill (True Crime Collection) From the Case Files of Notorious USA
2014
The Girl and the Horrors of Howard Avenue
2013
