The Minds Behind the Wolves

About the Authors

A clinical psychologist who has sat across from the world’s most prolific serial killer, and a visual storyteller with a builder’s eye for character. Together they write the Wolves universe.

Portrait of author Mac Powell
Co-Author

Mac Powell

Mac Powell is a recovering clinical psychology professor who has spent much of his career on the uneasy border between fascination and fear.

His work with death row cases for the Public Defender’s Office, along with his firsthand experience interviewing and studying the world’s greatest serial killers, gave him a rare view into the far edges of human behavior. That experience became the foundation for the Wolves universe: a connected world of investigators, murderers, and the evil hiding in plain sight.

These experiences are the foundation for Powell’s thrillers, which run on psychological tension and gallows humor. When he isn’t writing, he’s reading, chasing two dogs who have no respect for deadlines, or scouting Los Angeles restaurants with his coauthor.

Field Research, Not Fiction In 2023, Dr. Powell traveled to a maximum-security prison in northern Colombia to interview Luis Alfredo Garavito (“The Beast”), whose seven-year killing spree and 1,853-year sentence marked him as the world’s most prolific serial killer.
Mac Powell seated across from Luis Alfredo Garavito during the 2023 prison interview
Dr. Powell with Garavito, maximum-security prison, northern Colombia, 2023.
Luis Alfredo Garavito photographed during the interview
Garavito — “The Beast” — sentenced to 1,853 years.
Portrait of author Daniel Rhone
Co-Author

Daniel Rhone

Daniel Rhone is a writer, visual storyteller, and creative director whose obsession with craft grew into an ecosystem of skills focused on exploring human experience and connection.

Architecture and animation gave him a builder’s eye for story — foundations of character reacting to external forces, revealing a person through details both subtle and extreme. His fascination with identity, fear, and reinvention drives his work in the Wolves universe, where every case cracks open the hidden inner world of a killer, a victim, and those trying to stop the next body from dropping.