Ryan D. Smith lives in Denver with a pet turtle named Asparagus McElroy, Private Eye to the Stars.
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I'm a journalist who's worked everywhere from military post newspapers to global business publications. For several years, I was a police reporter on a barrier island off the coast of North Florida. Obviously, being a police reporter in Florida tends to give you a lot of ideas for stories. I combined that experience with my love of Chandler and Hammett to write my first novel.