Lachlan Smith

Lachlan Smith was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford and received an MFA from Cornell. He has written four previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series: Bear Is Broken , which won the 2014 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, Lion Plays Rough , Fox Is Framed , and Panther's Prey . Smith's fiction has also appeared in the Best New American Voices series. In addition to writing novels, he is an attorney practicing in the area of civil rights and employment law. He lives in Alabama.

Lachlan Smith was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford and received an MFA from Cornell. He has written four previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series: Bear Is Broken , which won the 2014 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, Lion Plays Rough , Fox Is Framed , and Panther's Prey . Smith's fiction has also appeared in the Best New American Voices series. In addition to writing novels, he is an attorney practicing in the area of civil rights and employment law. He lives in Alabama. See less