Nick Petrie

Dec 5, 2024 | niemanlab.org | Nick Petrie

When readers encounter clunky apps, disjointed digital experiences, or headlines optimized for clicks rather than clarity, they’re experiencing something deeper than bad design. These flaws reveal the structural cracks within modern newsrooms — the tension between their form and their function. Having tried almost everything else, I think 2025 is when publishers start to address their structural issues.

Mar 21, 2024 | bloomsbury.com | Nick Petrie |Gillian Anderson |Tom Kerridge |Sarah J. Maas

For many years, I worked as a home inspector, hired to tell people what was wrong with the houses they were buying. In 2010, I realized that many of my clients were young men and women who had just come home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I followed the news of these wars fairly closely, but I realized, to my shame, that I hadn’t given much thought to the men and women we’d asked to fight in these wars, or what their lives might be like afterwards.

Feb 9, 2024 | crimereads.com | Nick Petrie

Writing a long-running series is a challenging undertaking. With each new book, the goal is to stretch the boundaries, to keep expanding the possibilities for the characters – and do that without breaking the rules of the series.  Because every series has rules. Some of them are small but important – they tell us who these characters are. For example, old-school cop Harry Bosch is not going to suddenly give up classic jazz and start listening to Taylor Swift.

Feb 9, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Nick Petrie

When I think of Nick Petrie’s Peter Ash novels, I jokingly say to myself, You had me at Reacher! I was initially attracted to this series because of the comparisons that authors and reviewers had made between Peter Ash and Lee Child's Jack Reacher. I was sold and never looked back. The action does not take long to start in THE PRICE YOU PAY, the eighth installment in the series, as Peter is contacted by his good friend and ex-marine colleague, Lewis.

Feb 8, 2024 | booktrib.com | Meghan Quinn |Freida McFadden |Jonathan Kellerman |Nick Petrie

The iconic Margaret Atwood and American author Doug Preston have spearheaded a unique, collaborative novel featuring 36 noted authors of The Authors Guild. Each author contributes by creating and writing about one character living in Fernsby Arms, a building left behind by neighborhood gentrification and wealthier New Yorkers fleeing the COVID pandemic. The bored, working-class residents have little to do with each other — until one by one, they begin to illegally gather on top of the building.