As a novelist, Chuck Greaves has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime fiction including the Shamus, Lefty, Macavity, and Audie Awards, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards, the CAL Award in both mystery and fiction, and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. He is the author of seven novels, including four in the critically acclaimed Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries. Chuck's novel Tom & Lucky (Bloomsbury) was a Wall Street Journal "Ten Best Mysteries of 2015" selection, while his latest novel The Chimera Club was named the "Best Mystery Novel of 2022" by the Colorado Authors League, and was a Colorado Book Award finalist.