http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2010/04/last-is-first-john-hart-becomes.html

Graig Sisterson reports:

So he won both the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Edgar for Best Novel for THE LAST CHILD. Sheesh, that's rare. Both the big ones.

Three novels into his second career, it seems he made a good decision to leave the law.