Thank you for visiting my author website. I write the Port Stirling Mystery series featuring police chief Matt Horning. The series, now with nine installments, is set on the rugged and remote southern Oregon coast in a small town. 

Shallow Waters, book one in the series, was originally intended as a stand-alone story, but reader demand led to the second story, Midnight Beach, which was inspired by a real-life crime. Book 3, Code: Tsunami, imagines a big earthquake hitting the west coast, leaving a century-old murder mystery in its wake. The fourth book in the series, Dark Sand, features an international murder in the aftermath of the earthquake, and is a classic whodunit in the best British tradition.

Phantom Cove, Book 5, won Writer’s Digest best self-published book of 2024 in the Mystery/Thriller/Suspense category! Mourning Bay, Book 6, is an interesting study of a suicide that might be murder. Cold Rock Island, Book 7, takes the reader to a mysterious Pacific Ocean island off the coast of Oregon. It is the winner of the Nancy Pearl Book Award!

Book 8, Hunter’s Bog, published in January, 2025, involves Matt and Fern in a chilling crime that weaves between Port Stirling and Scotland. Book 9, Wave’s End, pits the townspeople of Port Stirling against each other in a deadly fight against development in their beautiful coastal village. It will be published in September, 2025.