Nicholas Holloway is an award-winning mystery author based in Texas. His debut novel, "The Loop", won the Book Excellence Award for Suspense Fiction. His thrilling new mystery thriller, "Three Houses on a Hill," recently won the 2020 Killer Nashville Claymore Award. Nick grew up in southern California and earned his master’s degree from the MFA Screenwriting Program at California State University Fullerton. While living abroad in New Zealand, Portugal, and Morocco, Nick garnered a love of landscapes. He utilizes dramatic backdrops in his stories, believing that a story’s terrain is just as important as its characters. "Three Houses on a Hill" is NOW AVAILABLE. Nick lives in Austin with his wife and their dog-child, Harvey.