Randall D. St. Claire

Randall D. St. Claire, whose given name is Randy Thompson, is a Dallas-Fort Worth business executive, strategist, and fiction writer whose career spans more than four decades in the corporate world. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership positions with Ryan Companies, and Cushman & Wakefield, where he worked extensively in commercial real estate, project management, technology, and data center advisory. He earned an MBA from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in business administration and management from California State University, Northridge. Alongside his corporate career, Thompson has spent roughly two decades developing a second calling as a novelist and storyteller. Writing under the pen name Randall D. St. Claire, he has completed 16 novels and continues to build an interconnected body of work centered on intelligent, emotionally weighty mysteries and thrillers. Inspired and mentored by the late novelist Patricia Anthony, his stories explore hidden secrets, dangerous relationships, betrayal, sacrifice, and the difficult choices ordinary people face when circumstances push them far beyond their comfort zones. His debut published novel, The Frequency, released July 21, combines mystery, speculative science, history, adventure, and noir-inspired elements, following ordinary characters caught in a dangerous discovery with consequences reaching far beyond themselves. His approach to storytelling is shaped by the same qualities that have defined his professional career: curiosity, research, leadership, and a belief in the power of strong relationships. His fiction places particular emphasis on character development, trust, resilience, and the moral consequences of difficult decisions, often allowing his characters to reveal themselves through circumstances he did not initially anticipate. After years of balancing writing with a demanding corporate career, St. Claire is now devoting his full attention to fiction writing, with additional novels—including Hell's Snow, The Harvest, Enemy Sun, The Covenant, and other works in development—planned for the future. Whether working in business or literature, his central interest remains remarkably consistent: understanding people, the choices they make, and what happens when those choices are tested.