WHERE TO START

Thrillers by I. C. Cosmos

My thrillers move in and out of various worlds—design, technology, art, politics, or law, for instance—but these worlds are merely the backdrop for the drama. The deeper issues recurring across all my books are power, manipulation, and the choices that reveal character.

Still, how do you decide where to start? Here are a few tips.

If you like stories involving:

Choose The Wall if you like strong female protagonists, chillingly believable villains, international settings, and personal suspense that escalates into political and technological intrigue. It is also the best place to start if you want to read the Alex Demarchelier Series in order.

Start with The Curator if you like resilient female protagonists, museum and gallery settings, art fraud, financial crimes, and psychological suspense centered on the fragile line between reinvention and exposure.

The Enabler is for you if you like ambitious female protagonists, toxic clients, White House intrigue, and suspense about how intelligent people rationalize one compromise after another.

You’ll enjoy The Project if you like intriguing female protagonists, undercover identities, reluctant partners, and thrillers that ask where protection ends and control begins. It’s the first book in the Helen Dillon series.

Read The Deal if you like strong female protagonists, formidable villains, political families with buried secrets, and suspense in which the most protected household in America may already be compromised.

Start with The Code if you like formidable female protagonists, deepfakes, disinformation, cyberattacks, corrupt insiders, and psychological suspense about what happens when no one knows which version of reality to believe.

Nemesis is for you if you’d enjoy reading about a freelance journalist who infiltrates a president’s private resort—and becomes the most dangerous witness in America when he turns up dead

Meet the author

I love storytelling and exploring what people do when life pushes them to the edge.

My fascination with why some people crumble under pressure, others become villains, and some rise to become their best selves found its way into all my books. I hope you’ll enjoy the characters' journeys through fear, conscience, and the darker corners of the human psyche.

My husband and I live in Baltimore.