Amanda Jaeger

Amanda Jaeger writes mysteries and psychological thrillers that place creative work beside unresolved violence. Paint by Murders, published in 2023, opens the Emily Ellis series. Its protagonist, also known as Mills, is an artist whose paintings appear connected to the deaths of young women in the town of Volga. As the images reveal details others have ignored, her ability attracts the attention of someone prepared to control both her art and its consequences. A small-town investigation meets supernatural or psychological uncertainty about where artistic intuition ends and dangerous knowledge begins. Jaeger continued Mills’s story in Paper Machete and Majestic Corpse, making visual art the organizing thread of a thriller sequence rather than a decorative trait. Her wider work includes the psychological thriller BreathTaken. Before publishing fiction, she worked with words in roles including sign-language interpreting and transcription, experiences that align with her books’ interest in communication, interpretation, and voices that risk being overlooked.