Philip Margolin, Margolin is a former criminal defense attorney in Portland, Oregon. He has tried many high profile cases and has argued in the Supreme Court. He was the first attorney to use the battered woman's syndrome defense in a homicide case in Oregon. Margolin's first novel is "The Last Innocent Man" (1981). The novel "Gone, But Not Forgotten" (1993), which tells the shocking story of housewives being kidnapped, convinced Margolin to take up writing full time when it became a bestseller. He has also written "Heartstone" (1994), "After Dark" (1995), and "The Burning Man" (1996), which tells the story of a retarded man, in a small Oregon town, who, accused of murder, is defended by a… lawyer who was just thrown out of his father's practice for a selfish mistake. The story is loosely based on a murder case that Margolin handled in the mid 1980's.