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In 2003, Michael Koryta became the youngest winner of the annual St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America 'Best First Private Eye Novel' contest. Michael wrote the winning novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, when he was just 20. It was published when he was 21. Tonight I Said Goodbye went on to earn an Edgar nomination for best first novel and to win the Great Lakes Book Award for Best Mystery. His most recent novel, A Welcome Grave, third in the Lincoln Perry series, has been nominated for a Quill Award, and his work has been translated into many languages.

Michael lives in Bloomington, Indiana, where he attended Indiana University, earning a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Previously an award-winning newspaper reporter, he now works for a detective agency in Bloomington and also teaches for the Indiana University School of Journalism.