Peter Spiegelman (born 1958) is an American crime fiction author and former Wall Street executive.

Spiegelman grew up in Forest Hills, Queens and, creating his own home made superhero comic books, was interested in writing from a young age.

[2] He attended boarding school and studied English as an undergraduate at Vassar College, New York, winning the Beatrice Daw Brown prize for "a member of the senior class who has demonstrated excellence in the composition of poetry".

[3][4][5] Spiegelman then "sobered up and realized I had to pay the rent" and worked for twenty years in the financial services industry; starting out as a computer programmer for a small consulting firm and ending up as a vice president of J.P.

[1][2] The series of books follows John March, an ex-deputy Sheriff and current Manhattan-based private eye.