Shane Stevens

Who is Shane Stevens?

Shane Craig Stevens is an American author of crime novels. His parents are John and Caroline Stevens.

His novels include Go Down Dead, Way Uptown in Another World, Dead City, Rat Pack, By Reason of Insanity, and The Anvil Chorus. Stephen King wrote an appreciation of Stevens in the Afterword of his novel The Dark Half and paid tribute to him in that book, in which Thad Beaumont writes violent crime novels starring a character named "Alexis Machine," a reference to a character from Stevens' novel Dead City.

In Stevens' novel By Reason of Insanity the serial killer character, Thomas Bishop, believes he is the son of Caryl Chessman, who was executed in 1960 for various crimes including rape and kidnapping. The hero of his later novel The Anvil Chorus, a Paris police inspector, is an Alsatian Jew apparently related to Alfred Dreyfus.

Stevens also wrote two crime novels under the pseudonym J.W. Rider: Jersey Tomatoes; Hot Tickets. The protagonist is Ryder Malone in both novels. The setting is New Jersey.. Malone is an extremely tough private detective who specializes in cases of murder.