C. Joseph Greaves

Charles Joseph Greaves was born and raised in Levittown, New York. He is an honors graduate of both the University of Southern California and Boston College Law School who spent 25 years as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles before turning his attention to fiction. His debut novel Hush Money (Minotaur), the first installment in his Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries, won the SouthWest Writers’ International Writing Contest and was named a finalist for numerous national honors including the Rocky Award from Left-Coast Crime, the Shamus Award from the Private Eye Writers of America, and the Audie Award for Best Mystery Audiobook of 2012. Jack has since returned in Green-Eyed Lady, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston called “the wickedest read of the year,” and in The Last Heir, whose surprise ending prompted Kirkus Reviews to say, "pray the man doesn't take up three-card monte." Chuck also writes historical fiction as C. Joseph Greaves. His second novel Hard Twisted (Bloomsbury), a work of literary fiction based on a Depression-era true crime, was called a “taut and intriguing thriller” (London Sunday Times) and a “gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film” (Los Angeles Times), and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction. He is currently at work on his next historical novel, Tom & Charlie (and George & Cokey Flo), also from Bloomsbury, which will be in bookstores in September of 2015.