C. JOSEPH GREAVES is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California and Boston College Law School who spent twenty-five years as an LA trial lawyer before becoming a novelist. Sometimes writing as Chuck Greaves, he has been a finalist for many of the top awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Macavity, Lefty, and Audie, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo), which was a Wall Street Journal “Best Books of 2015” selection and a finalist for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize. He is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the book critic for the Four Corners Free Press newspaper in southwestern Colorado, where he lives and writes.