Lexia "Lex" Snowe writes crime and thriller fiction and screenplays.

'Agent In Pursuit' is Lex's debut in book-length crime fiction. Her short fiction has been published in Mystery Tribune, as well as in The Los Angeles Review, Australian Book Review, and Short Édition under other names.

'Agent In Pursuit' builds on Lex's lifelong passion for crime fiction, and in particular procedural crime fiction. An honest audit of Lex's childhood would conclude "babysitted by 'CSI'". Her graduation paper in college was about Raymond Chandler (folding in Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Mickey Spillane, and James Ellroy). Reports that she only went to LA in the first place because of Chandler's 'The Little Sister' have so far eluded investigation.

Lex has spent the last 15 years reading hundreds of books of American crime fiction, with Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels, Richard Stark's Parker novels, the early mysteries of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, and Thomas Harris's 'The Silence Of The Lambs' all proving pivotal to her own aspirations in the genre. The screenwriting of Ted Griffin, Tony Gilroy, and Kathryn Bigelow was also influential, as were the many years Lex spent writing treatments for feature and TV spec scripts (in fact, that is perhaps where she honed her plotting skills most of all).

A priority for Lex in 'Agent In Pursuit' was to imagine the FBI from a variety of angles - not always, for example, from the abiding side of the law, and never under the illusion that corruption and avarice exist only in the criminal. A number of Lex's agents are deeply flawed. Almost all of them are damaged by what can't be unseen or lines that can't be uncrossed. But Lex's FBI agents ultimately all have this redeeming quality: they are in pursuit. Pursuit of something like justice.

Lex's website, with information on her fiction and screenwriting projects, is lexiasnowe.com.