Michael Kahn is a trial lawyer by day and an author at night. He wrote his first novel, GRAVE DESIGNS, on a challenge from his wife Margi, who got tired of listening to the same answer whenever she asked him about a book he was reading. "Not bad," he would say, "but I could write a better book than that." "Then write one," she finally said, "or please shut up." So he shut up for a long time, and then he wrote one.A former elementary school teacher, Mike is the award-winning author of FACE VALUE (2014) and 8 other Rachel Gold novels; a ninth novel, THE MOURNING SEXTON, under the pen name Michael Baron; and several short stories (including the collection A HANDFUL OF GOLD). His newest book, THE SIRENA QUEST (2015), is a stand-alone novel that he describes, in Hollywood jargon, as "a Baby Boomer version of 'The Big Chill' meets 'The Maltese Falcon.'"In addition to his day job as a lawyer, he is an adjunct professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a class on censorship and free expression. Married to his high school sweetheart, he is the father of five and the grandfather of, so far, five.His proudest moment as a writer: when his children took one of his books to school for show-and-tell.