JOHN C. BOLAND

According to the bio on Amazon: "Nominated for Edgar, Shamus, Derringer and International Thriller Writers awards. 

Besides writing novels and short stories, JOHN C. BOLAND has worked as a Senior Editor of Barron's Financial Weekly, contributed often to the Sunday New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and run a profitable hedge fund. He is the author of what Market Logic called "the best book ever written on insider trading"--Wall Street's Insiders (Morrow, 1985).

His story "Last Island South," from Ellery Queen's, gained two nominations for 2009 "Best Short Story": it was chosen as a finalist by the International Thriller Writers Association, and nominated for a Shamus by the Private Eye Writers. "Marley's Revolution," from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, was a 2012 Edgar nominee.

His previous novels, from St. Martin's Press and Pocket Books, were praised as "sparkling" (Publishers Weekly), "great fun" (USA Today), "tightly plotted" (Washington Times), "fast-paced" (Baltimore Sun), and "trenchant, sly--and cerebral fun throughout" (Kirkus)."