Claude Bouchard

Claude was born in Montreal, Canada, at a very young age, where he still resides with his spouse, Joanne, under the watchful eye of Krystalle and Midnight, two black females of the feline persuasion. In a former life, he completed his studies at McGill University and worked in various management capacities for a handful of firms over countless years. From there, considering his extensive background in human resources and finance, it was a logical leap in his career path to stay home and write crime thrillers.\n\nHis first stab at writing fiction was actually in 1995, the result being his first novel, Vigilante. Two others of the same series followed by 1997 but all three remained dormant until publication in 2009. Since, besides writing ASYLUM, a stand-alone, the Vigilante Series has grown to eleven thrilling installments including his latest release, Sins in the Sun. Two of his novels were included in the pair of blockbuster Killer Thriller anthologies, the second of which made the USA Today Bestsellers list in March 2014. Claude has also penned Something's Cooking, a faux-erotica parody and cookbook under the pseudonyms Réal E. Hotte and Dasha Sugah. His most recent work, released July 28, 2015, is Nasty in Nice, his contribution to Russell Blake's JET Kindle World.\n\nEight of his eleven books in the Vigilante Series have been #1 bestsellers in the Vigilante Justice category on Amazon while the remaining three came close in the #2 and #3 slots. Nasty in Nice made #3 on the Kindle World Mystery, Thriller \u0026amp; Suspense Bestseller List and sat comfortably at #1 for several days as a Hot New Release. Almost 600,000 copies of his books have been distributed to date.\n\nAn avid user of Twitter since launching his author career in 2009, Claude boasts a following of over half a million and has sent in excess of 265,000 tweets. He ranked #1 in Canada on Hubspot's now defunct Twitter.grader consistently for over a year in 2010-2011 and attained the #1 worldwide spot at least once, on May 20, 2011.\n\nClaude's other interests include reading, playing guitar, painting, cooking, traveling and planning to exercise.\n\nYou can visit his website at claudebouchardbooks.com which has often been described as comparable to DisneyLand without the rides.