About Me

I spent 20 years as a business and technology journalist. For the most part, that career revolved around Computerworld magazine, where I wrote and edited feature stories and opinion columns.

I spent the final six years of my journalism life as a freelancer. Most of my articles examined trends affecting corporate technology managers, but I also managed to write about race cars, job fairs, the Bahamas, the horrors of the office fridge, swimming pool design, romance in the workplace, and the joy of Pringles.

In 2006, I dumped journalism to write novels and focus on Flatout Motorsports Inc., the company I co-founded. Headquartered in Bellingham, Massachusetts, Flatout builds, rents, sells and services race cars. I spend weekends with Team Flatout racing my Honda S2000 in Sports Car Club of America competition.

While I read everything, mystery has always been my genre of choice. Influences and faves include James Ellroy, Ed McBain, Robert B. Parker, Donald Westlake/Richard Stark, John D. MacDonald, Ross Macdonald, Gregory McDonald, Robert Crais, Don Winslow, Ken Bruen, Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, and probably a couple more McDonalds or MacDonalds.

My debut novel, Purgatory Chasm, was published by Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books in May 2011. The follow-up, The Whole Lie, is coming in May 2012. I’m a proud member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

I received a BA in Creative Writing from Ohio Wesleyan University. I work at my home in Worcester County, Massachusetts.