John Lescroart is a New York Times bestselling author of 17 novels, including most recently The Hunt Club. He has also written 13 books in the San Francisco based Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series, and a couple of Sherlock Holmes pastiches: Son of Holmes and its sequel, Rasputin's Revenge. His books have been translated into 15 languages in more than 75, and his short stories have been included in several anthologies. His first novel, Sunburn, won the San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry Jackson Award for best novel by a California author, and both Dead Irish and The 13th Juror were, respectively, nominees for the Shamus and Anthony Best Mystery Novel. Guilt was a Readers Digest Select Edition choice. A short story, "The Giant Rat of Sumatra," was included among the The Best American Mystery Stories 1998. The last several of John's books have been Main Selections of one or more of the Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Book of the Month Club. All of John's books, except Sunburn, are still in print.

In 2000, he founded CrowArt Records to facilitate releasing his music and that of his friends. Under the CrowArt label, Date Night is a CD of John's original music performed as solos by master pianist Antonio Castillo de la Gala, and As The Crow Flies is a ten-song geographic journey, with John singing his own tunes, accompanied by some terrifically-accomplished musical acquaintances. Currently John is finishing work on another CD entitled "Whiskey and Roses," featuring many of his original Country & Western songs. Outside of the book and music world, John loves to cook. His original recipes have appeared in Gourmet magazine and in the cookbook "A Taste of Murder." (He also wrote the forward to Francine Brevetti's paean to the famous San Francisco eatery Fior d'Italia entitled The Fabulous Fior: 100 Years in an Italian Kitchen.) John and his wife, Lisa Sawyer, have two children, and live in Northern California.