Kevin O'Brien is an American novelist of thriller and suspense novels.
He studied journalism at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved to Seattle, Washington in 1980.
[1] His first novel, Only Son, was published in 1997 and was optioned for film rights by Tom Hanks.
[3] The Last Victim (2005) hit the New York Times Bestseller List and won the Spotted Owl Award for Best Pacific Northwest Mystery.
It is a historical thriller set in 1943 Seattle, where a woman joins America's "Army at Home" of defense plant workers and becomes connected to a serial killer they call the "Rosie Ripper".