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Chuck Greaves

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Levittown, NY, The United States
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aka C. Joseph Greaves

Chuck Greaves spent 25 years as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles before turning his talents to fiction. He has been a finalist for most of the major awards in crime writing, including the Lefty, Shamus, Macavity, and Audie Awards, as well as the New Mexico-Arizona, Oklahoma, and Colorado Book Awards, the CAL Award in Fiction, and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.

Chuck's Jack MacTaggart series of legal mysteries include the titles HUSH MONEY, GREEN-EYED LADY, THE LAST HEIR, and THE CHIMERA CLUB. In addition, Chuck publishes general/literary fiction as C. Joseph Greaves, including TOM & LUCKY (Bloomsbury), a Wall Street Journal "Best Books of 2015" selection.

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Chuck Greaves Many of the stories in my Jack MacTaggart mysteries are inspired by real cases I handled during my 25 years as an L.A. trial lawyer. Take, for example…moreMany of the stories in my Jack MacTaggart mysteries are inspired by real cases I handled during my 25 years as an L.A. trial lawyer. Take, for example, the prologue to THE LAST HEIR. I actually represented the wife of a prominent Angelino who died and left not one but two grieving widows. As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction.(less)
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The first album to which I can remember binge-listening was my sister’s copy of Carole King’s Tapestry.  That would have been around 1971, when I was sixteen.  Once I’d turned eighteen, my friends and I could hit the local Long Island bars and listen to live music, and the guy we followed most often was […]
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“Please don’t leave me alone tonight,” she said. And so I didn’t. Not even a little.”
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“and the capitalist-cissexist heteropatriarchy”
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Beth Hi Chuck,
Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!


message 3: by Chuck

Chuck Greaves Likewise, Peg!


message 2: by Peg

Peg Brantley Thanks for your Goodreads friendship, Chuck.


Robert Looking forward to reading Hush Money, Chuck.


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