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Steve Martini (born 1946) is an American writer of legal novels.
Born on February 28, 1946 in San Francisco, California, Steve Martini was raised until the age of ten in the Colma area of Daily City just south of San Francisco. He is part of a large extended Italian-American family, some of which reach back four generations in California. Martini’s mother and father moved to Los Angeles County, California in 1956. His father, Ernest Martini, was a rancher, managing and owning farms throughout California during his lifetime. His mother, Rita, was a housewife and homemaker, though in later years she worked extensively in the local library in San Gabriel, California. Martini graduated from San Gabriel Mission Grammar School, San Gabriel High School and Pasadena City College before transferring to the University of California at Santa Cruz where he graduated in 1968 with a degree in Government (Political Science).
Martini's first career was in journalism. He worked as a newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the largest legal newspaper in the country covering the state, the local courts and the civic center beat. In 1970 he became the newspaper’s first correspondent at the State Capitol in Sacramento and later its bureau chief. There he specialized in legal and political coverage. During this period he attended night law school and in 1974 took his law degree from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. He was admitted to the Bar in January 1975.
Martini has practiced law both privately as well as for public agencies appearing in state and federal courts. During his law career, in addition to other activities, he worked as a legislative representative for the California Department of Consumer Affairs, the State Bar of California, and served as special counsel to the California Victims of Violent Crimes Program. He has worked as an administrative hearing officer, a supervising hearing officer, an administrative law judge, and for a time served as Deputy Director of the State Office of Administrative Hearings. He is currently inactive with the State Bar of California, choosing writing instead as a full-time occupation.
In the mid-1980s Martini began his fiction-writing career. His first attempt at a novel, The Simeon Chamber, was represented by an agent and sold to the New York publisher D.I. Fine within two weeks of its submission. It was published in 1987. Compelling Evidence, his second novel, introduced his series character, attorney Paul Madriani, and was published by G.P. Putnam & Sons. A national bestseller, the novel earned Martini a critical and popular following. It was followed quickly by New York Times bestsellers Prime Witness, Undue Influence, The Judge, and The Attorney, each featuring the series character Madriani and his contrarian and irrepressible law partner, Harry Hinds.
The List, published in 1997, a novel and thriller about the commercial book publishing industry, was the first Martini novel to depart from the series characters since the author reached the best sellers list. Critical Mass, his next novel published in 1998, continued the departure from the courtroom as well as the Madriani series, though it involved a lawyer protagonist and was well within the legal-thriller genre. Critical Mass addressed issues of terrorism and the threat from weapons of mass destruction two years before the events of 9/11. It was a topic to which Martini would return in later years.
Steve Martini was previously married to the former Wanda Leah Martini, now Leah Martini-Puhlman. They have one daughter. Steve Martini currently resides in northwest Washington State but spends much of his time in Latin America and Southeast Asia where he writes, travels and acquires research and color for future works.
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Paul Madriani Series
Steve Martini - Compelling Evidence (read by Joe Mantegna)
Steve Martini - Prime Witness (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - Under Influence (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - The Judge (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - The Attorney (read by Erik Bergmann)
Steve Martini - The Jury (read by Erik Bergmann)
Steve Martini - The Arraignment (read by Erik Bergmann)
Steve Martini - Double Tap (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - Shadow Of Power (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - Guardian Of Lies (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - The Rule Of Nine (read by Dan Woren)
Steve Martini - Trader Of Secrets (read by Dan Woren)
Steve Martini - The Enemy Inside (read by Dan Woren)
Steve Martini - Blood Flag (read by Dan Woren)
Non-Series
Steve Martini - The Simeon Chamber (read by ???)
Steve Martini - The List (read by George Guidall)
Steve Martini - Critical Mass (read by Frank Muller)
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