G. M. Ford

Gerald Moody Ford (July 9, 1945 – December 1, 2021) was an American crime and thriller novelist. He was credited as G. M. Ford.

Biography Ford's father died when he was young and as such he was brought up solely by his mother, who worked as a secretary. Ford attended Nathaniel Hawthorne College in New Hampshire (closed 1988) and ended up with a master's degree in 18th-century literature from Adelphi University in New York.

Ford died on December 1, 2021, at the age of 76.

Career Ford's first book, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? was published in 1995. As well as being Ford's début novel, this book was the first in a series of 12 books based on the character Leo Waterman, a detective living and working in Seattle, Washington.

In 2001, Ford introduced the character Frank Corso in the novel Fury. This novel showed a different approach in Ford's writing style. Ford wrote five more Corso novels before publishing his first standalone novel, Nameless Night (Identity in the UK), in 2008. He subsequently published two other standalones, Nature of the Beast and Threshold.