About

Chuck Morgan is an acclaimed author known for his gripping crime fiction novels. His works have garnered numerous accolades, including:

  • 2019 Pacific Book Awards Best Mystery Finalist for Crime Delayed
  • 2020 Pacific Book Awards Best Mystery Winner for Crime Denied
  • 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards: 1st Place Blue Ribbon, CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller Fiction for Crime Denied
  • 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist, CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller Fiction for Crime Conspiracy
  • 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist, Book Series, CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller Fiction for Crime Series, The Buck Taylor Novels
  • 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist, CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller Fiction for Crime Exploded
  • 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist, CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller Fiction for Crime Spree
  • 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist, CLUE Book Awards for Suspense, Thriller Fiction for Crime Scene
  • 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards Series Finalist, Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards for Crime Series, The Buck Taylor Novels
  • 2025 Reader's Favorites Book Awards…Crime Unraveled…Silver Medalist

Chuck attended Seton Hall University and Regis College, and spent thirty-five years as a construction project manager. An avid outdoorsman, Eagle Scout, and licensed private pilot, he enjoys camping, hiking, mountain biking, and fly-fishing.

In addition to his crime series, Chuck authored Her Name Was Jane, a memoir about his late wife’s nine-year battle with breast cancer. He has three children, four grandchildren, and a Siberian Husky. Chuck resides in Lone Tree, Colorado.

 

He is the author of the Crime series, featuring Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Buck Taylor. The series includes:

  • Crime Interrupted
  • Crime Delayed
  • Crime Unsolved
  • Crime Exposed
  • Crime Denied
  • Crime Conspiracy
  • Crime Unknown
  • Crime Exploded
  • Crime Spree
  • Crime Family
  • Crime Scene
  • Crime Victims
  • Crime Unraveled
  • Cold Justice

The Delia Cahill Series

  • The Assassin’s Heart
  • Edge of Betrayal

The Leilani Kealoha Hawaiian Thriller Series

  • Murder in Paradise
  • The Eye of the Navigator
  • The Last Spiral

The Mike Branik Series

  • Preserve, Protect, and Defend

Murder in Paradise

Justice is sacred. But so is blood.Detective Leilani Kealoha thought she’d left her family’s secrets buried deep beneath the banyan roots of her Hawaiian childhood. But when a string of ritualisti...
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Preserve, Protect, and Defend

Power. Betrayal. The Fight for Democracy.Senator Oliver Stevenson is poised for the presidency—until an unexpected defeat shatters his ambitions. But he refuses to concede. With a ruthless militia a...
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Cold Justice, A Buck Taylor Mystery (Book 14)

A brutal sniper. A buried secret. A town caught in the crosshairs.When a series of precision sniper attacks shatter the quiet of a Colorado ski resort, Agent Buck Taylor of the Colorado Bureau of Inve...
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