Biography
Enes Smith relied upon his experience as a homicide detective to write his first novel, Fatal Flowers ( Berkley , 1992). Crime author Ann Rule wrote, “Fatal Flowers is a chillingly authentic look into the blackest depths of a psychopath’s fantasies. Not for the fainthearted . . . Smith is a cop who’s been there and a writer on his way straight up. Read this on a night when you don’t need to sleep, you won’t . . .”
Fatal Flowers was followed by Dear Departed ( Berkley , 1994). “You might want to lock the doors before starting this one,” author Ken Goddard wrote. “Enes Smith possesses a gut-level understanding of the word ‘evil,’ and it shows.” Ken Goddard is the author of The Alchemist, Prey, and Outer Perimeter, and Director of the National Wildlife Forensic Laboratory.
Smith’s work as a Tribal Police Chief for the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indians of Oregon led to his latest novel, Cold River Rising. He has been one of the few Siyapu (Sahaptin language word for white man) to hold that position in Indian Country. He worked as police chief in 1994 and 1995, and even though he is a Siyapu, he was asked back as tribal police chief in 2005.
He has been a college instructor and adjunct professor, teaching a vast array of courses including Criminology, Sociology, Social Deviance, and Race, Class, and Ethnicity. He trains casino employees in the art of nonverbal cues to deception. He is a frequent keynote speaker at regional and national events, and has been a panelist at The Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention.