A Long Time Dead

T.L. Bequette is a criminal defense attorney turned writer from Lafayette, California. His debut novel, Good Lookin', won the 2022 Independent Press Award for Crime Fiction, a Chanticleer International Book Award, and was a Finalist for a National Indie Excellence Award. Blood Perfect, second in the Joe Turner mystery series, was hailed by Kirkus Reviews as "a tale that solidifies Turner as a charmingly-reliable champion of the innocent." Much of Bequette's law practice involves defending young men from Oakland accused of murder. He holds degrees from The University of the Pacific and Georgetown Law School and serves annually on the faculty of the Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Clinic.