Steve Rush is an award-winning author whose experience includes tenure as homicide detective and chief forensic investigator for a national consulting firm. He worked with the late Joseph L. Burton, M.D, under whom he mastered his skills, and investigated many deaths alongside Dr. Jan Garavaglia of Dr. G: Medical Examiner fame. His specialties include crime scene reconstruction, injury causation, blood spatter analysis, occupant kinematics, and recovery of human skeletal remains.
Steve’s book Kill Your Characters; Crime Scene Tips for Writers was named finalist in Killer Nashville’s 2023 Silver Falchion Award for Best Nonfiction and Honorable Mention in the 2023 Readers’ Favorite Awards. Lethal Impulse won the 2022 Public Safety Writing Association’s Writing Competition for an unpublished novel and longlisted in the 2022 Page Turner Awards. His manuscript, Where the Pieces Fall, was named a Killer Nashville Claymore top pick in 2024, and longlisted in the 2025 Page Turner Awards along with his manuscript Before It’s Too Late.
He lives in Metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife Sharon.
