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= Jennifer Hillier = Jennifer Hillier (born 1974) is a Filipino-Canadian psychological thrille r author, best known for her serial killer thriller Jar of Hearts published in 2018 and her domestic suspense novel Little Secrets published in 2020. Hillier has seven published novels with her eighth work, Things We Do in the Dark, set to be released July 19, 2022.

Personal Life
Hillier was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1974. She lived in Seattle on and off for a total of eight years, during her first stay she published her first novel. She moved back and forth between Toronto and Seattle five times over the course of ten years. She met her husband in Seattle and they moved back to Toronto with their son in May of 2017.

Career
Hillier originally set out to write horror fiction, as an avid Stephen King fan, but she quickly fell into writing psychological thrillers. Her first novel Creep was published in 2011 with Simon & Schuster. She published three additional novels with Simon & Schuster; Freak (2012), The Butcher (2014) and Wonderland (2015). In 2018 Hillier switched to Minotaur Books an imprint of Macmillan Publishers with whom she published two additional novels Jar of Hearts (2018) and Little Secrets (2020). All of Hillier’s novels are set in Seattle and the only one of her books she wrote in Toronto was The Butcher (2014). An article in The Globe and Mail likens Hillier's writing to that of "fifties noir authors" like "Cornell Woolrich or Jim Thompson".

Hillier’s fifth novel, Jar of Hearts received various award nominations including finalist for the Anthony Awards and Macavity Awards. The novel also won the International Thriller Writers (ITW) Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel. The first five of Hillier's novels are serial killer psychological thrillers. Her sixth work Little Secrets is the first of her books to fall into the category of domestic suspense. Little Secrets became a national bestseller, appeared on several top pick lists including those of USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Anthony Awards.

Hillier has noted many authors that she loves to read for inspiration in her craft including Margaret Atwood, Stephen King and Lee Child. She is also an advocate for remaining a fan of readings even after becoming a published writer. She encourages other others to attend conventions both as a fan and for networking resources within the literary community. Hillier often attends ThrillerFest, a thriller novel convention, held annually in New York City and that is where she encountered both Margaret Atwood and Lee Child among many other authors.

Works

 * Creep (2011)
 * Freak (2012)
 * The Butcher (2014)
 * Wonderland (2015)
 * Jar of Hearts (2018)
 * Little Secrets (2020)
 * Things We do in the Dark (expected July 2022)