WilliamF. Carter

William F. Carter

William F. Carter holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Harvard University, the institution where the discipline, precision, and emotional honesty that define his fiction were forged. Before he ever typed the first line of Fire and Wrath, he had spent years studying what makes a story last. It shows.

Carter’s debut crime thriller has been praised by Chris Mooney, the number one New York Times bestselling author, as bringing a literary sensibility and an emotional depth to this fast-paced, memorable thriller. It has earned five-star editorial reviews from Reedsy Discovery, Books Paradise, and Book Buster, and has moved readers across four continents to comparisons with Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, Nelson DeMille, and Tana French.

The road to Fire and Wrath began at age twelve, when Carter received his first writing award and understood, with the particular certainty that only children can access, that stories were where he was meant to live. The Harvard MFA came later. Jack Coyle came later still. But the twelve-year-old who won that award is present on every page.

Carter lives near Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and two daughters. He plays guitar in the rock band Faded Halo, participates in community theater, and finds in both pursuits the same truth he finds in writing: that the best stories are the ones where the audience forgets they are watching. Book 2 in the Jack Coyle series is currently in development.