Michael Harvey is the best-selling author of five crime novels, The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, We All Fall Down and The Innocence Game. His sixth, The Governor's Wife, will be published by Knopf in 2014.  

Michael is also an investigative reporter, documentary producer and co-creator, producer and executive producer of A&E's groundbreaking forensic series, Cold Case Files.  

Michael's investigative journalism and documentary work has won multiple news Emmys and CableACE awards, numerous national and international film festival awards, a CINE Golden Eagle, two Prime-Time Emmy nominations, as well as an Academy Award nomination. Michael was also selected by the Chicago Tribune as Chicagoan of the Year in Literature for 2011. 

Michael holds a bachelors degree, magna cum laude with honors, in classical languages from Holy Cross College, a law degree with honors from Duke University and a masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Michael is currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.  

Michael was born in Boston and lives in Chicago. He owns an Irish bar in Chicago, The Hidden Shamrock.