Richard Zappa, author of The Jo Crowder Detective Novels, is a crime-drama novelist and short-story fiction writer. He is a graduate of the Washington College of Law of the American University in Washington, DC where he was an editor of the Law Review and Dean's Fellow to Adjunct Professor and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Arthur Goldberg. During the course of a distinguished career as a trial lawyer, he litigated and tried numerous cases in state and federal courts, many of which resulted in multimillion-dollar recoveries for his clients. A black-belt martial artist and self-taught pianist, he writes from his homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
