William Lashner is the New York Times bestselling author of The Barkeep, The Accounting, Blood and Bone, and the Victor Carl novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold across the globe. Writing under the pseudonym Tyler Knox, he is also the author of Kockroach, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. 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 outside Philadelphia with his wife and three children.