Paul Levine

The author of twenty-four novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald Fiction Award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, International Thriller, Shamus, and James Thurber prizes. In Midnight Burning, his newest novel, real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin fight fascists in 1930s Hollywood. A former trial lawyer, Levine also wrote twenty episodes of the CBS military drama JAG and co-created the Supreme Court drama First Monday starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. The international bestseller, To Speak for the Dead introduced readers to linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter and was named one of the top mysteries of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Early Grave, the latest Lassiter novel, was named the third best legal thriller of the 21st Century by BestThrillers.com, just behind novels by Michael Connelly and John Grisham. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Solomon vs. Lord series of legal capers. He is a member of Penn State's Society of Distinguished Alumni and graduated, with honors, from the University of Miami School of Law. He lives in Santa Barbara, CA.