ABOUT MARCUS QUINN
Marcus Quinn doesn’t exist. Not officially, anyway.
The person writing under this name does exist, though whether that’s an improvement is debatable. They live somewhere between reality and noir fiction, which explains a lot about the Dead Letters series.
WHO IS MARCUS QUINN?
A pseudonym for someone who spent too many years reading thrillers and mysteries and thought, “Wouldn’t it be fun to try to write a noir series?” Turns out writing seven books about corruption networks is significantly harder than reading them, but here we are.
When not writing about institutional decay and journalists who refuse to stop digging, Marcus can be found:
- Biking through places that don’t appear in guidebooks
- Reading comics that are decidedly not noir (balance is important)
- Following sports with the same obsessive attention to detail that goes into plotting murder investigations
- Traveling to cities that look better in rain
- Generally avoiding actual archives (Émilie does that part)
THE WRITING
The Dead Letters series is Marcus’s first proper attempt at long-form fiction. Book One is done. Book Two is in progress. Books Three through Seven exist mostly as outlines, caffeine-fueled notes, and good intentions.
If you’re reading this before the series is complete, you might want to cut Marcus some slack. First-time authors are like first-time investigators—they make mistakes, miss obvious clues, and occasionally stumble into something worthwhile by accident.
The goal is simple: write noir that feels real. Corruption that operates the way it actually does. Characters who carry their damage without becoming caricatures. Seven books that each tell a complete story while building something larger.
Whether that’s achievable remains to be seen. But Émilie Vidal doesn’t quit, and neither does Marcus Quinn.
WHY THRILLERS?
Because the world runs on networks of protection, and someone should write about it. Because noir is the only genre honest enough to admit that justice is conditional and power protects itself. Because good people make terrible choices, bad people sometimes have reasonable motivations, and nothing is ever as simple as it should be.
Also, thrillers are fun to write. Even when they’re not fun at all.
CONTACT
For questions, corrections, or complaints about plot holes:
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For professional inquiries:
Don’t. Marcus Quinn is a pseudonym. We’ve been over this.