Bruce LeonardBruce Leonard earned a B.A. in English with a creative-writing emphasis from UCLA. He has been a travel writer, an editor, an owner of a bakery, and a guinea pig for the U.S. Government. He frequently visits Paducah, Kentucky, the quilt capital of th world, where he created Hadley Carroll. He is grateful for the thousands of enthusiastic readers brought into his life by Hadley, and he hopes the series continues for many more novels. He is also the author of Hard Exit, an award-winning hardboiled mystery that takes place primarily in Malibu and is narrated by grieving private-eye Jack Drake. Read More Read Less