David L. Lindsey is an accomplished American novelist, well-known for his crime fiction and mystery novels. He is a native of Texas, having grown up in the Rio Grande Valley and West Texas. After completing his English literature degree at North Texas State University, he moved to Austin in 1970, where he still resides. During the 1970s, Lindsey worked as an editor in several small publishing houses in Austin and even established his own publishing firm, Heidelberg Publishers. However, it wasn't until 1980, when his wife encouraged him to start writing, that Lindsey began his successful career as a novelist.\n \n Lindsey's work is highly regarded in the thriller genre, with over fourteen novels and a career spanning over three decades. His 1990 novel, Mercy, was adapted into a film in 2000, and he has built a reputation as a master of weaving suspense and intrigue in his stories. His novels have been translated into twenty languages and have over two million books in print. Lindsey's writing career took off in 1983 when he published two mystery novels, one of which, A Cold Mind, introduced Houston homicide detective Stuart Haydon, who would appear in four subsequent novels. By the late 1980s, Lindsey had written four Haydon novels, but he changed directions and began extensive research for a novel about a new criminal phenomenon, the serial killer. Published in 1990, Mercy became an international bestseller and was adapted into a feature film in 2000.
In 1992, Lindsey won Germany's Bochumer Krimi Archiv award for the best suspense novel of the year with Body of Truth, the fifth and last novel to feature Stuart Haydon. He then turned to international settings with Requiem for a Glass Heart and The Color of Night. His twelfth novel, The Rules of Silence, was published in 2003 and was immediately bought outright by Universal Studios for a feature film production. Lindsey spent several years pursuing teleplay projects before returning to novels in 2007. He became interested in the privatized spying industry, which had become a multi-billion dollar industry in the years following 9/11, and began researching and writing a serial novel featuring former intelligence officer Marten Fane. The first volume, Pacific Heights, was published in 2011 under the pseudonym Paul Harper, and the second volume, Sorrow’s Spy, will be published in 2012. Lindsey researches and writes his novels in his library, which is adjacent to his home in Austin, Texas.