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James McCrone’s stories pose questions about the nature of power, the choices we make and the lessons we don’t learn. He’s the author of the thriller trilogy FAITHLESS ELECTOR, DARK NETWORK and EMERGENCY POWERS, about stealing the presidency and setting up a puppet government; his fourth thriller, also featuring FBI Agent Imogen Trager, is BASTARD VERDICT (2023), where a looming second referendum on Scottish Independence threatens to expose irregularities in the first. He is at work on a fifty mystery-suspense thriller titled, WITNESS TREE, where the leadership battle for a white supremacist group breaks into the open when a newly sober ex-con is the only witness to a brutal execution, turning his hopes for a new life into a fight for survival
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INTERVIEWS James is the 2023-25 President of the DE-Valley Chapter Sisters in Crime Network; he is a member of the International Association of Crime Writers, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and Phila. Dramatists Center Philadelphia Dramatists Center,
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Biography: McCrone has managed to weave fiction and fact into the compelling thrillers—Faithless Elector (2016), Dark Network (2017), Emergency Powers (2020), and now, BASTARD VERDICT (18-May-2023)! Kirkus Review has called McCrone’s earlier thrillers “taut,” “gripping,” and “timely.” His work “Numbers Don’t Lie” appeared in the 2020 short-story anthology Low Down Dirty Vote, vol. 2; and the short story “Ultimatum Games” appeared in the Winter/#7 issue of Rock and a Hard Place magazine. A short story about voter suppression, “Nostalgia,” appeared, in the third volume of LDDV.
McCrone is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Int’l Assoc. of Crime Writers, Int’l Thriller Writers, Philadelphia Dramatists’ Center, and he’s the current president of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime chapter.
Raised in the Midwest (Iowa and Wisconsin), and in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle) McCrone has lived in Scotland, England, France and Uruguay. His work both on an off the page deals with politics, and with what lies behind the headlines and easy explanations. He has worked in community development and affordable housing for more than fifteen years and has been writing stories since before he could spell properly. McCrone graduated in 1990 from the University of Washington in Seattle, with an MFA in Creative Writing. National Book Award Winner (for Middle Passage) Charles Johnson, was the chair of his committee.
McCrone lives in South Philadelphia with his wife and three children, where he is the former Business Manager for the South 9th Street/Italian Market Business Association - now writing full time.
He is also the former Executive Director and Corridor Manager for the Tacony Community Development Corp (Phila.), Bloomfield Center Alliance and Main Street Highland Park, both in New Jersey.