W.L. Ripley
W.L. Ripley is the author of two critically acclaimed mystery series, one featuring Wyatt Storme, an Ex-NFL star and atavistic cowboy, and the other featuring Cole Springer, an enigmatic ex-secret service agent.
Ripley is a native Missourian who has been a sportswriter, a successful high school and college basketball coach, and well-respected educator. He enjoys watching football and playing golf, spending time with friends and family, and enjoying a good cigar when his wife, Penny, allows it. He’s a father, grandfather, and unapologetic Schnauzer lover.
Ripley writes daily from his Western Missouri home. He’s also busy crafting a new Wyatt Storme novel and developing another series of books with two new heroes.
Books by W.L. Ripley
Storme Surge
All FIVE novels in the action-packed, wild and witty Wyatt Storme series in ONE volume!
Thunder Storme - Audiobook
Former NFL All-Pro Wyatt Storme and ex-CIA assassin Chick Easton take on the Kansas City mob & the Dixie Mafia in their fifth adventure. Read by J. Rodney Turner.
Storme Surge - Audiobook
All 5 of W. L. Ripley's blistering "Wyatt Storme" novels, 46 hours of non-stop action, all in one audio book, FREE for Audible subscribers!
Featured Book
Storme Warning By W.L. Ripley
The fourth novel featuring Wyatt Storme, the ex-football player turned troubleshooter that critics are hailing as the long-awaited heir to Travis McGee and Spenser. This time, Storme is hired to protect a bad-boy movie star getting well-deserved death threats.
Reviews For W.L. Ripley
Ripley is the blue-collar Elmore Leonard, toiling in the workaday world of the genre mainstream but turning out finely crafted caper novels featuring nimble, fast-talking protagonists who see larceny as an opportunity for good clean fun.
Ripley succeeds in creating characters about whom we care
For those of us who still feel an ache for the immortal John D, there might finally be a replacement on the horizon.
His dialogue sparkles, with nearly every scene having a clever reversal in it that approaches poetry.
Ripley is a powerhouse in the mystery field.
