Hands Through Stone: How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom's Prison Walls

James
A. Ardaiz is a former prosecutor, judge, and Presiding Justice of the
California Fifth District Court of Appeal. Ardaiz graduated from the
University of California Hastings College of Law in 1974 and was
admitted to the California State Bar the same year.

In addition to writing Hands Through Stone, Ardaiz
is also the author of Fractured Justice and Shades of Truth, the
first two novels in Ardaiz's Matt Jamison mystery series. And in
2021 he published Tears of Honor, a sweeping novel which follows the
lives of two Japanese American soldiers who fought against Nazi
tyranny in Europe, while their families were imprisoned in America.

Ardaiz resides in Fresno, California.