I've spent twenty-five novels writing about characters trying to figure out what comes next. Most of my books had been wrapped inside plots with guns and dead bodies. 

But when my father died in 2024, I started writing stories that moved closer to the quiet truths of how people actually live through long marriages, grief, and the places we return to even when we know we shouldn’t.

My work today includes crime fiction, short stories, and atmospheric fiction set in 1970s and 80s New England. My paintings, with a sense of solitude and place, also become the covers for my books.

I was born outside Providence. I live in North Carolina now, which still surprises me some mornings.