William Lashner is the New York Times bestselling author of The Barkeep, The Accounting, Blood and Bone, and eight previous Victor Carl novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold across the globe. Writing under the pseudonym Tyler Knox, Lashner is also the author of Kockroach, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, which was described as "roaringly entertaining" by Publishers Weekly and "an energetic tour de force" by USA Today. Before retiring from law to write full-time, Lashner was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington DC. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law as well as the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives with his wife, his three children, and his dog, Chase Muttley, outside of Philadelphia.