John Caudill Author

John Caudill has spent the better part of his life in a courtroom. As a boy growing up in Bowling Green, Kentucky he rode to the county courthouse with his father, a criminal defense attorney, and sat in the gallery watching him defend all types of characters accused of running afoul of the law. And it was from that experience that John resolved to one day also to be a trial lawyer.

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A short time after John finished law school, he was hired at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Louisville. The list of people he prosecuted included members of the Ku Klux Klan, church burners, serial killers, moonshiners, and corporate polluters, just to name a few.

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In 2005, after 16 years as a federal prosecutor, he went into private practice focusing on whistleblower litigation and criminal defense. If you were one of his clients, the one thing you could count on was that John knew how to tell your story.

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After 30 years as a lawyer and over a 100 jury trials, John's still telling stories, except now they're murder mysteries and legal thrillers, with more than a little satire thrown in.

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He does so by inviting you to be an investigator in the search for the killer, or one of the jurors following the evidence at trial, or maybe a fly on the wall bearing witness to the antics of the many colorful characters John has created and set in legal communities throughout Kentucky and the American South.

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Regardless of the vantage point you choose, John promises to take you on an a journey that will keep you guessing, considerably amused, and eagerly anticipating what happens next.

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Welcome to the adventure and happy reading!