Martin Clark is a Virginia circuit court judge. His past novels have been chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year, a Bookmarks Magazine Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. His novel The Legal Limit was the winner of the Library of Virginia's People's Choice Award and was called "a model of how to write a literary legal thriller" by the Oregonian. He lives in Patrick County, Virginia, with his wife, Deana.