Tony Berryman

ALLi Author Member

Location: Canada

Genres: Thriller, Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Mystery

Skills: Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop

Tony writes mysteries and thrillers, two fingers at a time. His first massage therapy thriller, The Night Nurse, was published in 2020. His second, On Borrowed Time, is due out whenever he finishes writing the damned thing.

Tony spent 17 years as a registered massage therapist in Vancouver and now works for Parks Canada. When he’s not making a paycheque or writing books he can be found hiking and paddling the Columbia Valley or trying out new recipes on unsuspecting guests.

Tony also co-writes with Juanita Rose Violini, his life partner and murder mystery plots expert, under the pen name Trigger Jones. Trigger’s first two sci fi adventure books, Gravity Doesn’t Lie and Atmosphere Meltdown, are available now. The first book in their time travel treasure hunt series will be out soon.

Tony Berryman's books

The Night Nurse

A massage therapy thriller.

There's a pattern to everything. Even death.

A massage therapist who can't stop seeing patterns. A nurse who won't stop giving his patients the final mercy. Once their paths cross, neither can let the other go.

Jackson's hands and pattern sense tell him his patients are dying before their time. His friends think he might need the psych ward again. Wendy will never stop practicing her deadly craft, but she's tired of running. As their paths spiral together, Jackson must learn to accept his terrible gift and use his massage skills in new ways – or lose everything to the night nurse.

This medical thriller, featuring a serial killer nurse without peer, takes you inside the work of a traveling massage therapist as his obsession with patterns shows him the truth behind the deaths of his elderly patients.

Set against the backdrop of a strong Vancouver sense of place, with an explosive side plot, The Night Nurse pulls you into a wild, twisting ride where everything moves, but the patterns are there – for those with the eyes to see.

Gravity Doesn't Lie

The Lunar colony’s fate will be decided by one man’s actions – and he wants nothing to do with it.

Joe Drive is done being a spacejet pilot, done fighting the Resistance. Living a quiet life on the far side of the Moon. Then an impossible request from the most beautiful woman in the Solar System brings a world of trouble to his door.

Now assassins want him dead, the most powerful Elite off-Earth wants a quiet word, and a young monk from the obscure Peter Foundation says Joe’s mission will determine humanity’s future. The kicker: someone has made a Graviton strong enough to kill everyone on the Moon.

As his Space Force past returns with a vengeance and a hidden plan to crush the Resistance becomes terrifyingly real, Joe has to pull himself together and get off the launch pad. He’ll need to save the girl, protect the Moon, and help the Resistance – if only to get some peace and quiet.

Atmosphere Meltdown

Atmosphere Alert: Seek Pressurized Shelter Immediately

The worst alert to get on the back side of the Moon. When a mine accident in the crater jeopardizes Heaviside City’s oxygen, Earth’s Home Alliance blames it on Resistance sabotage. Joe Drive, ex-Space Force pilot, wants to ignore it all. He’s done with the fight. But a determined widow demands Joe’s help proving her husband was murdered to hide the truth. Joe reluctantly agrees to investigate.

The truth is worse than he imagined. This was no accident. The Home Alliance wants to take over the Moon, and they’ll kill an entire city to do it. The streets fill with armed patrols, the Number 3 Mine goes on lockdown, and Joe and his friends are all over the holoreels as wanted terrorists. The tension on the streets has become a riot.

With the help of a rogue monk, a rebellious teen, a math geek and a strange child living under the kitchen sink, Joe must stop a man who would sacrifice a population as a means to an end. Or, for every soul in Heaviside City, their next breath might be their last.

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