The character Rick is a mechanic, a jokester and technical wizard. I really had quite a bit of fun with Rick. He was always a car guy, a wheelman, and looks after Buck’s 2013 Mustang. Near genius. Trained as a mechanical engineer he left Google to open his own luxury-mod garage, specializing in muscle … Read more

  “In the years following that period, the Benson family left Boston during the summers, traveling north. The family spent those warm months at a small frame house near a beach strewn with rocks. There was a small section of woods behind the house. “OK, George. Hold still. Please. Good Eleanor,” he said. Benson painted … Read more

  Frank had begged his father to let him study art in Paris. His teachers at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts school told him as much. To no avail. His father was dead set against it. His mother would side with her husband, though secretly she wished young Frank could go. The training that … Read more

  The “Buck Madison” stories came out of my desire to do several things. The first was to create a mystery character that I wanted to read about, involving: THE ART WORLD – My background is that of an artist, both as a graphic designer and as a fine artist. So that scene was comfortable … Read more

  Books rarely arrive fully formed—they evolve from stray ideas, late-night questions, global tramping, and the troublemakers who won’t leave an author’s mind alone. Here’s how each one of mine found its way into the world. Daylight Girls, the first of the series, was written many years ago in draft form. Even then, I had … Read more