To date, I have published four books—all mysteries. The Pittsley County Chronicles is a trilogy comprised of Juckets, Swamp Yankees and Bog Men, set in a rural area of southeastern Massachusetts, in the present. The fourth book, Winterkill is set in New Hampshire and Vermont in the 1930s. I have recently completed a fourth manuscript (not a mystery, entitled “Strummin’ the Banjo Moon) and am working on a fifth book about my investigation of a 1969 murder in Massachusetts.
I never expected to become a mystery writer. I began my writing life as a playwright—and am, even now, kicking around an idea for a new play. I graduated New York University with a B.A. in English, and Harvard University with an A.L.M. in Psychology—which does not qualify one for much, really.
Most of my working career has been spent in
the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health,
with a few stints in the private and public sectors, and a couple of
years doing research at the Iowa Psychopathic Hospital (now that
was interesting).
