I was born and grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, attending LSU like my father before me. In 1968, I entered the Duke University graduate English program. This is where I met my wife Susan. Five years later we moved to coastal Virginia, where we both taught at Virginia Peninsula Community College. I also taught fiction into film, a valuable undertaking for a would-be writer.
My four novels follow the career of detective Cynthia Westbrook, a plainclothes sheriff’s investigator in Northern Virginia. The most
interesting thing about a mystery, in my view, is the detective, and so Cynthia’s cases are intertwined in various ways with her non
professional life.
