Richard V. Rupp

Richard V. Rupp, Author

Richard V. Rupp is an author of the FBI Special Agent Hartmann crime novel series. Death & Taxes the first novel in the series published in August 2015 received the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction.

His forte is storytelling, which is enhanced by his research skills learned in the business world. Before writing fiction, Dick was recognized internationally as a lecturer, writer, and published author on the subjects of insurance and risk management.

Dick was born in Santa Monica, California and raised in a Hollywood movie industry family. His father was a still photographer for major studios and his son is an award-winning grip/lighting director in Hollywood. He served in the Army Reserve where he was assigned to the Army Finance Corp. Dick's insurance industry assignments required him to travel the world, including frequent trips to London, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands.

Dick, now resides in Burbank, California - the Media Capital of the World.

Selected Works

Procedural Crime Fiction

Death on the High Seas

This is the second novel in the FBI Special Agent Hartmann series. It seems murder follows him whereever he goes. While enjoying a luxury cruise with his beautiful partner Coleen one of their fellow passengers is brutally murdered. Dick and Coleen's discrete getaway turns into a full-blown FBI investigation. The murdered passenger has ties to the White House, so what would be a standard investigations turns into one that is being closely monitored by the Director of the FBI and the President of the United States. To complicate maters even further, their crime scene will end up sailing away and their suspects and witnesses will scatter to their homes around the world.

In this crime thriller, FBI Special Agent Hartmann in charge of the Bureau's San Francisco's Violent Crime Squad are called into action. He and his elite squad are assigned to investigate a suspicious death at the IRS Service Center in Fresno, where they're soon led into the bowels of the city's largest street gang - the Bulldogs. As the case grabs the attention of the White House, the squad travels to Los Angeles and then to Mexico where they must infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel.

Nonfiction

Rupp's Insurance & Risk Management Glossary (2nd Edition)

A comprehensive reference which defines over 5,600 insurance-related and risk management terms.

Rupp's Insurance & Risk Management Glossary

A comprehensive reference which defines over 4,000 insurance-related and risk management terms.

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