C. J. Lyons

C. J. Lyons, also known as Cat Lyons, is an American physician and writer of medical suspense novels.

Biography
Lyons was raised in the Pennsylvania municipality known as State College, and attended medical school at the University of Florida. She did her internship and residency at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Akron Children's Hospital. She has held teaching appointments at the Medical College of Ohio and the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. She worked as a general pediatrician focusing on community health care.

In 2008 she published Snake Skin, which includes the hero Lucy Guardino who is a Pittsburgh Soccer mum who is employed by the FBI in their Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Squad. Further books in that series include Bloodstained and Kill Zone.

Awards

 * Romance Writers of America, Golden Heart Finalist in Romantic Suspense, 2004
 * From The Heart Romance Writers of America, Winner of Golden Gateway Contest in Romantic Suspense

Beacon Falls series
The Beacon Falls books feature Lucy Guardino.

Fatal Insomnia series

 * A Raging Dawn
 * The Sleepless Stars
 * The Sleepless Stars

Hart and Drake series

 * Nerves of Steel
 * Sleight of Hand
 * Face to Face
 * Eye of the Storm

Shadow Ops series

 * Chasing Shadows
 * Lost in Shadows
 * Edge of Shadows

Tombstone Digs series

 * In Memory