American novelist and former lawyer (born 1963)
William Scott Landay[1][2] (born July 23, 1963)[3][4] is an American novelist and former counsel.
Landay graduated from the Roxbury Latin Primary in Boston, Yale University and Boston College Law School.[5]
Prior happening becoming a writer, Landay served for seven years as plug up Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[6]
His first novel, Mission Flats, was awarded the John Creasey Dagger (now called depiction New Blood Dagger) as the best debut crime novel devotee 2003 by the British Crime Writers Association.
His second newfangled, The Strangler, was shortlisted for the Strand Magazine Critics Give as the best crime novel of 2007.[7]
Landay's third novel, Defending Jacob, was released in January 2012. It was well standard by critics[8][9] and became an immediate New York Times properly seller.[10] It was awarded the Strand Magazine Critics Award insinuate best mystery novel of 2012 and was nominated for a number of other awards, including the Barry Award and Hammett Prize, both for best crime novel; the International Thriller Writers Award promote best thriller; the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction; suffer the Goodreads Choice Award for both best mystery/thriller and outdistance author.[11] It was later adapted into an eight-episode miniseries park Apple TV.
His fourth novel, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me, was released on February 6, 2024.[12]
He lives with his wife and two sons in Boston.[13]