Sean Chercover is a former private detective turned novelist and screenwriter. A native of Toronto, he has held a motley assortment of jobs over the years, including video editor, scuba diver, nightclub magician, encyclopedia salesman, and truck driver. He is the author of award-winning novels featuring Chicago private investigator Ray Dudgeon: Big City, Bad Blood and Trigger City. His fiction has won the Anthony, Shamus, CWA Dagger, Dilys, and Crimespree awards, and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Barry, Macavity, Arthur Ellis, and ITW Thriller awards. After living in Chicago; New Orleans; and Columbia, South Carolina, Sean returned to Toronto where he currently lives with his wife and son. |