Kevin G. Chapman is, by profession, an attorney specializing in labor and employment law. He is the most recent past Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Network of the Association of Corporate Counsel, leading a group of 6800 in-house employment lawyers. Kevin is a frequent speaker at Continuing Legal Education seminars and enjoys teaching management training courses.
Kevin’s passion (aside from playing tournament poker) is writing fiction. Kevin’s first Novel: "Identity Crisis: A Rick LaBlonde, P.I. Mystery," was self-published through Xlibris in 2003, and is now available via Amazon.com as a Kindle e-book. His second novel, A Legacy of One, published in 2016 and was a finalist (short list) for the Chanticleer Book Reviews' Somerset Award for Literary Fiction. A Legacy of One is a serious book, filled with political and social commentary and a plot involving personal identity, self-determination, and the struggle to make the right life decisions.
Kevin then began writing the Mike Stoneman Thriller series, currently at five novels, with a sixth due out in late 2024. The series includes the winner of the 2021 Kindle Book Award (Lethal Voyage, MST #3) and the Blue Ribbon best-in-category winner of the 2022 CLUE Award (best police procedural, Fatal Infraction, MST #4). Kevin then wrote two stand-alone mysteries, Dead Winner (CLUE Award best-in-category winner) and The Other Murder (CLUE Award Grand Prize Winner; Finalist for the NEIA best mystery).
Kevin's next novel, Double Takedown (MST #6) will be published in December, 2024.
Kevin has also written several short stories, including "Fool Me Twice," the winner of the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association's 2012 Legal Fiction Writing Competition, which was the genesis of the character Mike Stoneman, the protagonist in Righteous Assassin. Also The Car, the Dog & the Girl, a humorous gangster story, and Ghost Creek, a romantic mystery novella. The short stories are available free on Kevin's website.
Kevin is a resident of central New Jersey and is a a graduate of Columbia College (‘83), where he was a classmate of Barack Obama, and Boston University School of Law (magna cum laude ’86). Readers can contact Kevin via his website at www.KevinGChapman.com.
