Alex Parman

Alex Parman is the nom de plume for the writing team of Ric Beard and Chris Niles.

Friends for nearly a decade, Chris and Ric first imagined Cyrus Jennings in 2018. When Ric's game-lit series took off and demanded his full attention, Cyrus has to take a back seat. But even in the face of twenty successful gaming sagas, Ric couldn’t shake the pull back to thrillers.

Chris cut her teeth on international thriller, then settled into a double life writing sea adventure (think Jimmy Buffett meets Indiana Jones) and plotting cozy mysteries. But since she’s always looking for new places to hide a body and get away with it, she can’t stay away from thrillers for very long either.

It's a match made for the ticking clock, and they’ll be doing this as long as readers keep reading them!