Matt Coyle is the author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime series. Matt knew he wanted to be a crime writer at age thirteen when his father gave him Raymond Chandler’s THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER. Matt’s books have won the Anthony, Shamus, Lefty, Ben Franklin Silver, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Silver, and San Diego Book Awards. BLIND VIGIL, the seventh book in the Rick Cahill series. Matt hosts the Crime Corner podcast and lives in San Diego with his yellow Lab, Angus, where he is writing his eighth crime novel.