This time last year, Dan Mallory was the toast of the publishing world. Known to readers by his pseudonym AJ Finn, the American author had just released his debut novel, The Woman in the Window, a psychological thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. The book was widely lauded and landed cover blurbs from industry titans such as Stephen King and Gillian Flynn. “Unputdownable,” wrote King. “Astounding. Thrilling. Amazing,” raved Flynn. It proved a hit with readers, too. It entered the New York Times bestsellers charts at number one and sold two million copies in eight months. “It’s a beautifully written, brilliantly plotted, richly enjoyable tale of love, loss and madness,” gushed the Washington Post. A film adaptation starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman and Julianne Moore is due for release later this year. Over the course of his career, Mallory is alleged to have fabricated illnesses, family deaths, and wildly … [Read more...] about Dan Mallory, the fiction writer who made up stories about his own life