Steve Hodel

Steve Hodel is a New York Times bestselling author. He spent twenty-four years with the LAPD, where, as a Hollywood Division homicide detective, he worked on more than three hundred murder cases and achieved one of the highest "solve rates" on the force. He is a licensed PI and author and his first book, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder was a New York Times bestseller and was nominated for an MWA Edgar Award in the Best Fact category. Steve has written four additional books: Most Evil, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, Black Dahlia Avenger II, a sequel and an eight-year follow-up to his true-crime investigations and the recently published Most Evil II (Rare Bird Books, 2015). A fifth book, Black Dahlia Avenger III: Murder as a Fine Art, was published in November 2018. His investigations, spanning two decades have been featured on NBC Dateline, CBS 48 Hours, Court TV, A&E Bill Kurtis, Cold Case Files, CNN Anderson Cooper, and the Discovery Channel. Steve's most recently appeared in March 2019 on the Today Show and Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, where he with other family members discussed the making of the hit podcast, Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia Murder. Steve's most recent publications include a two-book investigation: The Early Years: The Further Serial Crimes of George Hill Hodel M.D. (pub. 2021). These editions, Part I and Part II present George Hodel's crimes from the 1920s and 1930s. His latest publication is a "historical fiction"; Black Dahlia Avenger IV: The Superior Court Trial of Dr. George Hill Hodel by the Quick and the Dead". Steve was born and raised in Los Angeles and in 2022 moved to and now resides with Rima, his Chorkie dog (half Chihuahua half Yorkie) in Birch Bay, Washington State.