J. Alexander Greenwood
J. Alexander Greenwood is the author of the acclaimed John Pilate Mystery Series, including Pilate's Cross, Pilate's Key, Pilate's Ghost, Pilate's Blood, Pilate's 7, Pilate's Rose, Pilate's Shadow, and Pilate's Faith (Caroline Street Press).
Pilate's 7, released in summer 2015, is a collection of short stories told from the perspective of characters other than the main character John Pilate. A paperback version was released in February 2017. It was named #35 on the 2016 Shelf Unbound Top 100 Notable Book list.
Pilate's Cross was named a "Page Turner" by Shelf Unbound magazine in 2014. Pilate's Key was a 2012 Kindle Book Review Award semi-finalist for Best Mystery/Thriller. It was named a "Page Turner" by Shelf Unbound magazine in 2012. Pilate's Blood was named #45 on the 2015 Shelf Unbound Top 100 Notable Book list.
Pilate's Ghost was named a semi-finalist for Best Mystery/Thriller by Kindle Book Review in 2013. Most of the John Pilate series is in circulation in the Kansas City and St. Joseph, MO Public Library Systems.
Greenwood also authored the 2011 Shelf Unbound/Wattpad Short Story award-winner Obsidian and the top-selling non-fiction ebooks, Kickstarter Success Secrets, and The Podcast Option. Pilate's Cross, Kickstarter Success Secrets, and The Podcast Option are also Audible.com audiobooks.
In 2018, he cowrote and released Big Cabin and Dispatches from the West, the last known manuscript from his late grandfather, Robert E. Trevathan.
He is the host and producer of the Mysterious Goings On podcast, which interviews and celebrates writers.
He resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his wife and daughter.
“The professor’s motive was in the grand scheme of things terribly petty ” Greenwood said. “"Pilate’s Cross" is inspired by the questions this terrible crime created but as a work of fiction it is set in a different place and time and has a more complex motive for the murders.”
“I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha " he said. "The book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel.”
“The real core of this book is about the open secrets that can fester in a community until an outsider raises questions.”