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Kevin Flynn
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Thriller, Literary Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Other, Historical Fiction
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Kevin Flynn is the author of two books: "Relentless Pursuit," a non-fiction work about a horrific murder case that he took to conviction and its impact on two families, and the upcoming novel "Rock Creek," a mystery thriller set in Washington, D.C. in 1952, publication date May 21, 2024. Both books were inspired and driven by two things: his love for the city of his birth, and his work of 35 years, prosecuting violent crimes in the nation's capital.
"Relentless Pursuit" was acclaimed nationwide by multiple publications including the Washington Post and USA Today. Most notably, it was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award in the category of True Crime in 2008.
In advance of its publication, "Rock Creek" has already received praise from James Grady, author of "Six Days of the Condor" and numerous other works (“Kevin Flynn has done a wonderful service to readers everywhere by creating fiction that reveals truths”) and David Swinson, author of "The Second Girl" and numerous other works (“'Rock Creek' is both a heart-warming and heartbreaking mystery, and a must read”).
Born in D.C., Kevin grew up in the suburb of Annandale, VA but spent part of every weekend in the city, as his grandparents lived in D.C.'s Southeast quadrant. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Virginia School of Law, then worked for five years in private practice -- unproductive in retrospect, given all that followed -- before joining the Department of Justice. As a D.C. prosecutor, Kevin tried almost 30 murder cases, investigated hundreds more, and was instrumental in dismantling multiple criminal street gangs. His work brought him into daily contact with the best and worst aspects of human nature, and those experiences have provided him with the sensibility and perspective that is infused in his fiction and nonfiction writing.
Kevin lives in Northern Virginia with his wife Patrice, also a career attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. Their children, Connor and Megan -- a lawyer and a lawyer-to-be, both dedicated to public service -- live in New York City.
Kevin Flynn's books
"Relentless Pursuit," Putnam 2007
"Relentless Pursuit" follows Kevin Flynn's personal mission as a D.C. homicide prosecutor dedicated to bringing justice and closure to the family of a brutally murdered mother and daughter, during a time in which his own father was diagnosed with a terminal illness. More than a mere police procedural account of an investigation and trial, "Relentless Pursuit" is a story about two families -- the victims' and Kevin's -- and how their ordeals intertwined, with each spiritually sustaining the other in a time of tragedy.
"Rock Creek," Kilimanjaro Press, 2024
"Rock Creek," PUBLICATION DATE MAY 21, 2024, rises from Washington, D.C., 1952: a murder mystery, a political thriller, and a work of historical fiction that brings to life a time and place that are so distant, yet still seem so close.
It's about the nation's capital in the early 1950s: the most important city in the world at the midpoint of the American century, but at heart a small Southern town deeply divided along race and class boundaries. It's about those boundaries and what happens to people who dare to try to cross them.
It's about rebellion and protest, power and sex.
But most of all it's about two people.
Emily Rose: a beautiful Capitol Hill staffer with a tragic past, rooted in the Holocaust, from which she tries to escape but never quite can. A woman who ends up dumped and abandoned in the city's Rock Creek Park, her death raising the mystery that animates the book.
And Shane Kinnock: a homicide detective with one foot in the most refined part of town and the other in its seediest. When the book begins he's at the low point of his life and his career, still shell-shocked from war and scarred by family tragedy. He sees the prospect of redemption in Emily's story but will find that it draws him to close to insanity. In the end, it is his perseverance in solving the book's central mystery -- and finally coming to grips with the moral choices of his past -- that gives the book its enduring spirit.