Hi:
I'm a retired journalist who delights in the fact that writing fiction allows me to make stuff up instead of being limited to the facts. I write murder mysteries involving detective-freelance writer Nick Bancroft. His stormy love affair with unpredictable Maggie Atley adds spice to Nick's sometimes stumbling efforts to discover who done it.

My latest book "Fork In The Road" is available at Fictionwise Ebooks

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Mystery and Dark Humor! From the author of the Nick Bancroft mysteries comes a delicious blend of suspense and deft humor that is sure to delight every mystery reader! Welcome to Fork, a community with a weed-infested street and a snow plow, where men gather at Absalom's Tavern to tell occasionally true tall tales, where the high-minded Historical Society meets across the street at Rosemary's Delmonico Diner to plot against the tavern and its customers, where a variety of characters produce belly laughs with their schemes, were fumbling handyman Daniel Owens courts the beautiful but soiled Rosemary, and were a murderer thinks he's (or was it a she?) going to get away with it. For a change, there is plenty to talk about in Fork, a nowhere prairie town. The unsolved murder of exotic stranger Francesca Evans becomes the main topic until Daniel Owens plows six feet of snow onto the road commissioners' driveway. And then a guy digs up the outhouse on Ezra Brigg's farm and won't say why. Or the time Hester DeWitt, the town's self-appointed conscience, gets drunk on elderberry wine while trying to close the only tavern in town. There are other distractions, like Daniel's courting of sexy Rosemary Allen until he realizes she is the whore who taught him about sex. And John Turner, the stranger who has some kind of power over Rosemary, announces plans to develop the town. After a deputy sheriff is charged with the murder Turner builds a golf course, and Daniel stops trying to resist the lure of Rosemary's body. The town isn't the only fork in the road, just about everybody's life is about to come to one.