Gil Reavill is a journalist, screenwriter, and playwright. Widely featured in magazines, Reavill is the author of one previous Layla Remington mystery, 13 Hollywood Apes, as well as Mafia Summit: J. Edgar Hoover, the Kennedy Brothers, and the Meeting That Unmasked the Mob, and Aftermath, Inc.: Cleaning Up After CSI Goes Home. He also co-wrote the screenplay that became the film Dirty, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. He lives in New York with his wife, Jean Zimmerman, and their daughter.