Patrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn, NY. His first book, THE WHITE VAN, was a finalist for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named a Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. His highly anticipated follow-up, EVERY MAN A MENACE, came out in 2016, and was again named one of the ten best of the year by the Wall Street Journal.