James Osborne is a Canadian author known for suspense thrillers, crime fiction, and short stories. He is the author of The Ultimate Threat (2015), an Amazon #1 bestseller. His most recent novel, Prescription for Deception (2024), is an international crime thriller. In 2020, Osborne published The Plot to Assassinate Secret Shepherd, a novel that received high praise from critics and readers alike.
James Osborne was born in Canada and studied psychology and political science at the University of Alberta. He completed graduate work there and at Duke University in North Carolina. He later earned accreditation from the Canadian Public Relations Society, which awarded him a life membership, an honorary fellowship, and its lifetime achievement award. He also holds a long service medal from the Canadian Armed Services.
His career has included work as an investigative journalist, an army officer, a college teacher, and vice president at a Fortune 500 company. Osborne also worked as an investor relations consultant and helped establish two university programmes in journalism and communications. He has served on corporate boards, university senate committees, and college advisory councils.
Osborne’s fiction includes both novels and short stories. His debut novel, The Ultimate Threat, became an Amazon bestseller twice—first in 2015 and again in 2017. It was also named runner-up for Best Thriller of 2015 in an international readers’ poll. His second novel, The Maidstone Conspiracy, won Best Contemporary Fiction in the McGrath House global contest in 2017.
The second book in that series, The Plot to Assassinate Secret Shepherd, was updated and reissued by Fairfax Books. “It’s a story of love and hope prevailing in a world under siege,” said New York editor Lois W. Stern. Author James Murray called it “a spellbinding tale of deceit and greed.”
James Osborne has also published Encounters With Life — Tales of Living, Loving & Laughter, a collection of 34 short stories. The book won Best Short Story Collection in the 2015 P&E readers’ poll. His stories appear in several anthologies, including Limitless (2016), Voices from the Valleys, and Tales2Inspire — The Crystal Collection.
James Osborne lives and writes in Canada.
Photo credit: Dave White (jamesosbornenovels.com)
James Osborne was born in Canada and studied psychology and political science at the University of Alberta. He completed graduate work there and at Duke University in North Carolina. He later earned accreditation from the Canadian Public Relations Society, which awarded him a life membership, an honorary fellowship, and its lifetime achievement award. He also holds a long service medal from the Canadian Armed Services.
His career has included work as an investigative journalist, an army officer, a college teacher, and vice president at a Fortune 500 company. Osborne also worked as an investor relations consultant and helped establish two university programmes in journalism and communications. He has served on corporate boards, university senate committees, and college advisory councils.
Osborne’s fiction includes both novels and short stories. His debut novel, The Ultimate Threat, became an Amazon bestseller twice—first in 2015 and again in 2017. It was also named runner-up for Best Thriller of 2015 in an international readers’ poll. His second novel, The Maidstone Conspiracy, won Best Contemporary Fiction in the McGrath House global contest in 2017.
The second book in that series, The Plot to Assassinate Secret Shepherd, was updated and reissued by Fairfax Books. “It’s a story of love and hope prevailing in a world under siege,” said New York editor Lois W. Stern. Author James Murray called it “a spellbinding tale of deceit and greed.”
James Osborne has also published Encounters With Life — Tales of Living, Loving & Laughter, a collection of 34 short stories. The book won Best Short Story Collection in the 2015 P&E readers’ poll. His stories appear in several anthologies, including Limitless (2016), Voices from the Valleys, and Tales2Inspire — The Crystal Collection.
James Osborne lives and writes in Canada.
Photo credit: Dave White (jamesosbornenovels.com)
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