A trial lawyer by day and a writer by night, Michael Kahn is the award-winning author of eight Rachel Gold novels (including his latest, FACE VALUE); a stand-alone novel, THE MOURNING SEXTON (under the pen name Michael Baron); and several short stories.

A former elementary school teacher in the Chicago Public Schools, Mike wrote his first novel, GRAVE DESIGNS, on a challenge from his wife Margi, who got tired of listening to the same answer whenever she asked him about a book he was reading. “Not bad,” he would say, “but I could write a better book than that.”

“Then write one,” she finally said, “or please shut up. I don’t want to hear you fifty years from now telling your great-grandkids that you could have written a book.”

So he shut up for awhile–no easy task for an attorney–but eventually he wrote GRAVE DESIGNS (originally published in hardcover under the title THE CANAAN LEGACY).