Internationally bestselling author William Landay is a former assistant district attorney who holds degrees from Yale University and Boston College Law School. He is highly regarded for his mastery of suspense, a writer praised as much for his skill at plotting a story as for his well-crafted characters.
In his lectures, Landay attracts standing-room-only crowds for discussions of his work and the writing process.
Landay’s latest novel is the New York Times bestseller Defending Jacob, which was named one of the best books of 2012 by The Boston Globe,Entertainment Weekly and The Kansas City Star as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The Strangler, which was a Los Angeles Times Favorite Crime Novel and was nominated for The Strand Magazine Critics Award as best crime novel of 2007.