A.J. Thibault
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A. J. Thibault is an award-winning author, novelist & screenwriter. He has written over twenty screenplays, three novels and made a few short student films. His paranormal novel “Ghost Town” was an Award Winner in the Horror: Supernatural/Paranormal category of the 2021 American Fiction Awards.
He is the author of the thriller “Deadly Serious,” published by Encircle Publications. His non-fiction works include “Sway,” “The Political Game,” and the #1 international best seller “How to Change a Law,” a 2017 Reader's Favorite Gold Medal Winner, a Finalist in the 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Book Awards and a Runner Up in the 2017 San Francisco Book Festival. He received his bachelors degree from Ryerson University and earned his MFA from UCLA’s film school. He currently lives with his wife and three children in Northern California.
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Ghost Town
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Paranormal Mystery
A trained government agent. A sabbatical-turned-nightmare. A secret puppet master whose hold on the strings is brutally tightening... Seasoned CIA officer Richard Hart is burnt out. Agreeing to meet a top spy during a much-needed month-long break, he gets a sinking feeling of a setup when his car breaks down in the searing heat of the desert. But after he stumbles across a couple of locals in an abandoned town, he makes a horrifying discovery: no one can leave. As Hart investigates a community full of suspicious characters, he's shocked to realize he's been transported one hundred years in the past. Now trapped in the Old West, the hardened operative is battling ghost riders, half-living creatures, and deadly desperados... Can Hart escape this hellish place before he ends up six feet under dust? Ghost Town is a thrilling western paranormal mystery novel. If you like gritty heroes, captivating landscapes, and action-packed suspense, then you'll love AJ Thibault's rousing race through time. 
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Deadly Serious
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Psychological Mystery
A stand-up comic haunted by a family secret… It’s 1980, Los Angeles. Dan Goodis is a struggling, irreverent stand-up comic who likes to speak his mind. When he witnesses the brutal assassination of a brilliant hermit physicist, it sets him on a path that leads to the discovery of his father’s dark CIA past, and he soon learns that being funny can be deadly serious business. Before he is murdered, the physicist inadvertently gives Dan a secret code. Dan doesn’t want to be involved, but soon discovers he has no choice: he is being hunted down by members of a secret cabal who want to silence him and stop him from revealing what he knows. Obsessed with the puzzle, Dan realizes he must solve the riddle of the hermit’s death if he is going to find a way out. He enlists the help of his family and friends, as well as his new lover, Lauren. But he quickly finds out that by involving his allies, he has exposed all of them to imminent danger. Dan realizes he is in too deep, and there is no turning back. It seems his only option is to put everything on the line, though he knows that disclosure of the hermit’s code could cost him his life. 
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