L. J. Washburn

L.J. WASHBURN has been writing award-winning, critically acclaimed mystery, western, and historical novels for more than forty years. L.J. received the Private Eye Writers of America paperback original award and the American Mystery award for the first book in the Lucas Hallam Mystery series, WILD NIGHT, and was nominated for a Spur by the Western Writers of America for a novel written with James Reasoner. Washburn also won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for the story “Charlie’s Pie” and was nominated for two more stories, “Widelooping a Christmas Cowboy” and “Panhandle Freight”.

Washburn’s Hallam novels about an older cowboy who works as a riding extra in Hollywood during the 1920’s when he isn’t working as a PI, and a Lucas Hallam collection of short fiction including the first story, was republished by Wolfpack Publishing’s Rough Edges Press in 2022.

Website — http://liviajwashburn.com