Lachlan Smith has written four previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series. Bear Is Broken, won the 2014 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel. Smith's fiction has 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.
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After working to free his father from prison, Leo has left private practice and is working as a public defender. He and his co-counsel Jordan Walker are in the midst of a trial, defending Randall Rodriguez, a mentally ill homeless man whom they contend fa... SEE MORE