Lee Lofland is a veteran police investigator who’s solved hundreds of cases, such as homicide, rape, murder-for-hire, and kidnapping. He’s the recipient of various commendations, including the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police Medal of Valor.

As an expert, Lee has appeared on BBC television, CNN, and on NPR radio’s Talk of the Nation, Public Television, and he’s the host and founder of Writers’ Police Academy Online, and the Writers’ Police Academy, a fun and exciting hands-on event for writers.

Lee is the author of Police Procedure and Investigation, a Guide for Writers (Writer’s Digest Books/Penguin Random House), the true crime tale Murder on Minor Avenue, The Trapper, a story in the After Midnight anthology (foreword by Lee Child) and Smelling Elephants in the upcoming People Are Strange anthology (foreword by Lisa Gardner).

He’s published articles in The Writer magazine and Writer’s Digest Magazine, numerous media publications, and he currently writes Case Files, a regular feature article in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Lee writes the daily blog, The Graveyard Shift, and he and his wife Denene are co-founders of the annual Writers’ Police Academy and Writers’ Police Academy Online.

Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling book, Postmortem, was based upon the crimes of the Southside Strangler, a serial killer in Virginia. Lee served as a witness to the state execution of the notorious murderer, the first execution in the U.S. resulting from a verdict based on DNA evidence.

Lee and his wife Dr. Denene Lofland are publishers at New Arc Books, an imprint under the umbrella of Level Best Books. New Arc Books publishes both nonfiction and fiction titles.

Lee is a proud member of the National Sheriffs’ Association, International Literacy Association, International Thriller Writers (ITW),, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and The Authors Guild.

He previously served as Board Member on the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, NCADD in the Silicon Valley, an Advisory Board Member for ECPI’s criminal justice program in Greensboro, N.C., and as a Board Member for the New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America.