About

After retirement, writing a single novel was at the top of my bucket list. A year later, a publisher accepted my debut thriller, Human Strays in December 2020 and published it in 2021. Family Curse followed in 2022, and The Red Flock was released in 2023. In 2024, I wrote a prequel, expanding the Angel of Mercy series to four books. A fifth book in the series, The Coroner's Table, is planned for late in 2025. In the meantime, I am finishing a stand-alone novel, Bless Me Father, For YOU Have Sinned, a psychological thriller.

      Writing novels is infectious—a happy condition my fellow writers and I share. In fact, I joined six other authors to write Passage to Murder, a Prohibition era mystery set in San Francisco.

    I graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a degree in journalism, and worked for seven years as a reporter. Most of that time, my 'beat' included covering police, fire, and criminal justice. A long career in public relations followed. 

My pastimes include photography, camping, and short getaways in the San Francisco Bay Area and along the California Coast. I'm also a light keeper at the Point Cabrillo Lighthouse in Mendocino, where the TV shows Murder She Wrote, East of Eden, and others were filmed.