Charles W. Snyder was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Boston Latin School and Boston University, before attending graduate school at the University of Virginia. There he studied the history of England and wrote a thesis about Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton. Charles went on to obtain his law degree from the University of Georgia, and practiced law for over forty years, including six years as a staff attorney for the Federal Election Commission in Washington D.C., and the remaining years in private practice in Savannah, Georgia. Murder at Knebworth is his first novel.