Patricia Briggs

Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American author, well known for the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Briggs was born in Butte, Montana, and lived in various cities in the Pacific Northwest. She now resides in Washington state. Briggs began writing in 1990, and published her first novel Masques in 1993. While sales on her first book were poor, her next book Steal the Dragon garnered better sales and editorial reviews. Briggs began writing multi-book stories. Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood share both the same world and the same characters, though both are complete stories. Raven's Shadow and Raven's Strike are a duology, with a single story line spanning both novels. One hallmark of Briggs' books is that each is a stand-alone story,...