Welcome to the official website of thriller author Sean Cregan

This, courtesy of the elegant Sarah Weinman:

It’s a new name, a new style, and a new publisher for the man once and still known as John Rickards, and I think the change on all writerly fronts is absolutely the right one to make at this point in his career. THE LEVELS is dystopic without being obvious about it, instead creating a tangible, darkened world each of the seemingly doomed characters inhabits, tries to escape from and ultimately accepts in one form or another. It’s the written version of the burnt out, empty buildings captured on film by Godfrey Riggio with Philip Glass scoring underneath – a landscape that repels and attracts but is too busy moving and changing to care what you think or are uncomfortable with.

(I should confess that I’ve never heard of Godfrey Riggio.)

And this from the Australian Senior newspaper group:

SEAN Cregan’s debut novel, The Levels, is a maze of complex characters, intricate sub-plots, and mind-bending suspense. There’s a thrill on every page.

Set in a derelict housing project known as The Levels, on the outskirts of Newport on the US east coast, it opens with ex-CIA agent Nate Turner trying to track down his would-be murderer. As Nate’s quest takes him to The Levels, he encounters a host of characters with names such as Sorrow, Ghost and The Beast. Suspended cop Kate is also there trying to find The Beast, the serial killer who infected her with a deadly virus that is due to kill her within days. This urban gothic thriller will keep the reader spellbound until the last page.