About the Author

STEVE HAMILTON attended the University of Michigan and won the prestigious Hopwood Award for writing. His first novel, A Cold Day in Paradise, won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. It went on to win the Edgar and Shamus Awards for Best First Novel. In 2006, Hamilton won the Michigan Author Award for his outstanding body of work. He lives in Cottekill, New York, with his wife and their two children. For almost 25 years Jim Bond produced and hosted general interest and fine arts radio talk shows, primarily in the Midwest. Since 1985 Bond has maintained an active schedule as a director and narrator of radio and television commercials, corporate videos, and audiobooks, many of which have won awards including an Audie Award.