Tony Lee Moral is an author of mystery and suspense whose work bridges classic cinematic storytelling with contemporary thrillers.
He is the author of five acclaimed books on the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock: Alfred Hitchcock Storyboards (Titan); A Century of Hitchcock (Kentucky Press); The Young Alfred Hitchcock’s Moviemaking Masterclass (MWP Books), The Making of Hitchcock’s The Birds (Kamera Books), and Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie (Bloomsbury). His nonfiction explores how Hitchcock used plot, character, location, and visual detail to create enduring stories of suspense, obsession, crime, and retribution.
Born in Hastings, England,, Tony later moved to California, where he lived in Monterey and Big Sur. Those landscapes — steeped in isolation, fog, and hidden histories — became the inspiration for his supernatural thriller The Haunting of Alice May, published in paperback and Kindle in 2022.
Drawing directly on Hitchcock’s storytelling principles, Tony’s fiction blends mystery, psychological tension, and the paranormal, often exploring the thin boundary between the living and the dead. The Haunting of Alice May marks the first in a cycle of suspense-driven novels, with further titles in development.
In his mystery thrillers The Passion of the Cross and The Two Masks of Vendetta, Tony Lee Moral explores obsession, identity, and revenge against richly textured European backdrops. Blending crime, psychological suspense, and moral reckoning, these novels draw on Hitchcockian themes of duality, hidden guilt, and the dangerous power of secrets. Faith, art, and history collide as ordinary lives are pulled into extraordinary conspiracies, where the past refuses to stay buried and justice is never straightforward.