Mike Lawson is the Edgar and Barry Award nominated author of twenty novels.
His novel, Alligator Alley—a Joe DeMarco thriller—has received starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher's Weekly and is an Editor's Pick on Amazon.
It was released on February 7, 2023. Joe DeMarco works for the Speaker of the House, John Mahoney. He’s Mahoney’s fixer. When Andie Moore, a young woman working in the DOJ’s Inspector General’s Office, is murdered in cold blood in Florida’s Everglades, it falls on DeMarco to get to the bottom of things. Paired with Emma, an enigmatic, retired ex-spy with seemingly endless connections in the military and intelligence communities, they venture south to the scene of Andie’s murder: Alligator Alley.
DeMarco and Emma waste no time in identifying two suspects—a pair of crooked, near-retirement FBI agents named McIntyre and McGruder. But as they keep digging, it becomes clear that these FBI agents weren’t acting alone, and that this goes much deeper than just the murder of an innocent 23-yearold woman.